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Regulations, 2010
Table of Provisions (57)
Statutory Text (57 Articles)
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NATIONAL INTEREST (ENABLING POWERS) ACT
(CAP. 365)
Enforcement of European Union Sanctions (Iran)
Regulations, 2010
IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 3 of the
National Interest (Enabling Powers) Act, the Prime Minister has
made the following regulations:-
The title of these regulations is the Enforcement of Citation.
European Union Sanctions (Iran) Regulations, 2010.
(Regulation 3)
II
(Non-legislative acts)
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REGULATIONS
COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 961/2010
of 25 October 2010
on restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Regulation (EC) No 423/2007
freezing of funds and economic resources and for
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
certain other technical amendments to existing measures.
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union, and in particular Article 215 thereof,
Those restrictive measures fall within the scope of the
(4)
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and,
therefore, notably with a view to ensuring their uniform
Having regard to Council Decision 2010/413/CFSP of 26 July
application by economic operators in all Member States,
2010 concerning restrictive measures against Iran and repealing
legislation at the level of the Union is necessary in order
Common Position 2007/140/CFSP ( 1 ),
to implement them as far as the Union is concerned.
Having regard to the joint proposal from the High Represen
tative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and
Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 of 19 April 2007
(5)
the European Commission,
concerning restrictive measures against Iran ( 2 ) enacted
the restrictive measures taken by the Union further to
Common Position 2007/140/CFSP ( 3 ). For the sake of
Whereas
clarity, Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 should be
repealed and replaced by this Regulation.
On 26 July 2010, the Council approved Decision
(1)
2010/413/CFSP confirming the restrictive measures
The revised restrictive measures concerning dual-use
(6)
taken since 2007 and providing for additional restrictive
goods should cover all goods and technology set out
measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran (‘Iran’) in
in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009
order to comply with UN Security Council
of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for
Resolution 1929 (2010), as well as for accompanying
the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit
measures as requested by the European Council in its
of dual-use items ( 4 ), with the exception of certain
Declaration of 17 June 2010.
items in Category 5 thereof. Those Category 5 items
which relate to nuclear and missile technology and are
currently subject to a prohibition on their transfer to and
Those restrictive measures comprise, in particular, addi
(2)
from Iran should, nevertheless, remain subject to such
tional restrictions on trade in dual-use goods and tech
prohibition. Moreover, a prohibition should also be
nology, as well as equipment which might be used for
imposed on the transfer to and from Iran of certain
internal repression, restrictions on trade in key
goods and technology which were previously subject to
equipment and technology for, and restrictions on
a prior authorisation requirement under Article 3 of
investment in the Iranian oil and gas industry,
Regulation (EC) No 423/2007.
restrictions on Iranian investment in the uranium
mining and nuclear industry, restrictions on transfers of
funds to and from Iran, restrictions concerning the
Iranian banking sector, restrictions on Iran's access to
In order to ensure the effective implementation of the
(7)
the insurance and bonds markets of the Union and
prohibition on the sale, supply, transfer or export to Iran
restrictions on providing certain services to Iranian
of certain key equipment or technology which could be
ships and cargo aircraft.
used in the key sectors of the oil and natural gas
industries, a list of such key equipment and technology
should be provided.
Decision 2010/413/CFSP also provided for additional
(3)
categories of persons to be made subject to the
( 2 ) OJ L 103, 20.4.2007, p. 1.
( 3 ) OJ L 61, 28.2.2007, p. 49.
( 1 ) OJ L 195, 27.7.2010, p. 39.
( 4 ) OJ L 134, 29.5.2009, p. 1.
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In these regulations, unless the context otherwise Interpretation.
requires –
“the Act” means the National Interest (Enabling Powers)
Act;
“Annex IV” means Annex IV to the Council Regulation
referred to in regulation 3;
“the Council Regulation” means the Council Regulation
referred to in regulation 3;
“IAEA” means the International Atomic Energy Agency;
“Iran” means the Islamic Republic of Iran;
“Sanctions Monitoring Board” means the Monitoring
Board established under regulation 2 of the Sanctions
(Monitoring Board) Regulations, 2006;
“the Treaty” means the Treaty referred to in article 2 of
the European Union Act.
For the purpose of article 3(4) of the Act, Council Text of Council
Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 of 25 October, 2010 on restrictive Regulation
measures against Iran and repealing Regulation (EC) No 423/2007,
is published in the English language in the Schedule to these
regulations.
For the purposes of article 3 of the European Union Act,
the Council Regulation is binding in its entirety on Malta and shall
be part of the domestic law thereof under the conditions laid down
in the Treaty.
(1) The Sanctions Monitoring Board may refuse to
grant any authorisation for any sale, supply, transfer or export
of the goods or technology included in Annex IV, where it has
reasonable grounds to determine that the sale, supply, transfer or
export thereof would contribute to one of the following activities
(a) enrichment, reprocessing or heavy water-related
activities of Iran;
(b) the development of nuclear weapon delivery
systems by Iran; or
(c) the pursuit by Iran of activities related to other
topics about which the IAEA has expressed concerns or has
identified as outstanding.
(2) Where any authorisation for any sale, supply,
transfer or export of the goods or technology included in Annex
IV has been granted, the Sanctions Monitoring Board may
annul, suspend, modify or revoke such authorisation where it has
reasonable grounds to determine that the sale, supply, transfer or
export thereof would contribute to the activities contained in sub-
regulation (1).
(3) Where the Sanctions Monitoring Board refuses to
grant an authorisation, or annuls, suspends, substantially limits or
revokes an authorisation in accordance with sub-regulations (1) and
(2), the respective authorities of Malta shall notify the authorities
of other Member States of the European Union and the European
Commission thereof, and share the relevant information with them,
in compliance with applicable laws protecting the confidentiality of
such information.
Any person who commits an offence against any
provision of the Council Regulation to which these regulations
apply, or against these regulations shall, on conviction, be liable
to a fine (multa) not exceeding one hundred and sixteen thousand,
four hundred and sixty-eight euro (€116,468).
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In addition, to be effective, restrictions on investment in
view of the specific threat to international peace and
(8)
the Iranian oil and gas sector should cover certain key
security posed by Iran as manifested by the deepening
activities, such as bulk gas transmission services for the
concern about its nuclear programme underlined by the
purpose of transit or delivery to directly interconnected
European Council on 17 June 2010, and to ensure
grids, and, for the same reason, should apply to joint
consistency with the process for amending and
ventures as well as other forms of associations and coop
reviewing Annexes I and II to Decision 2010/413/CFSP.
eration with Iran in the sector of the transmission of
natural gas.
The procedure for amending the lists in Annexes VII and
(16)
VIII to this Regulation should include providing
The restrictive measures should not affect the import or
(9)
designated natural or legal persons, entities or bodies
export of oil or gas to and from Iran, including the
with the grounds for listing, so as to give them an
fulfilment of payment obligations in connection with
opportunity to submit observations. Where observations
such import or export.
are submitted, or substantial new evidence is presented,
the Council should review its decision in light of those
observations and inform the person, entity or body
concerned accordingly.
Effective restrictions on Iranian investment in the Union
(10)
require that measures be taken to prohibit natural or
legal persons, entities and bodies subject to the juris
diction of the Member States from enabling or auth
For the implementation of this Regulation, and to create
(17)
orising such investment.
maximum legal certainty within the Union, the names
and other relevant data concerning natural and legal
persons, entities and bodies whose funds and economic
resources must be frozen in accordance with the Regu
It is prohibited, pursuant to the obligation to freeze the
(11)
lation, should be made public. Any processing of
funds and economic resources of Islamic Republic of Iran
personal data of natural persons under this Regulation
Shipping Line (IRISL) and of designated entities owned or
should respect Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the
controlled by IRISL to load and unload cargoes on and
European Parliament and of the Council of
from vessels owned or chartered by IRISL or by such
18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals
entities in ports of Member States. However, the obli
with regard to the processing of personal data by the
gation to freeze the funds and economic resources of
Community institutions and bodies and on the free
IRISL and of designated entities owned or controlled by
movement of such data ( 1 ) and Directive 95/46/EC of
IRISL does not require the impounding or detention of
the European Parliament and of the Council of
vessels owned by such entities or the cargoes carried by
24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with
them insofar as such cargoes belong to third parties, nor
regard to the processing of personal data and on the free
does it require the detention of the crew contracted by
movement of such data ( 2 ).
them.
In order to ensure that the measures provided for in this
(18)
It should be clarified that submitting and forwarding the
(12)
Regulation are effective, it should enter into force on the
necessary documents to a bank for the purpose of their
day of its publication,
final transfer to a person, entity or body that is not listed,
to trigger payments allowed under Article 18 of this
Regulation, does not constitute making funds available
within the meaning of Article 16(3) of this Regulation.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
This Regulation respects the fundamental rights and
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observes the principles recognised in particular by the
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
DEFINITIONS
and notably the right to an effective remedy and to a fair
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trial, the right to property and the right to protection of
personal data. This Regulation should be applied in
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions
accordance with those rights and principles.
shall apply
This Regulation also fully respects the obligations of
(14)
(a) ‘branch’ of a financial or credit institution means a place of
Member States under the Charter of the United Nations
business which forms a legally dependent part of a financial
and the legally binding nature of the United Nations
or credit institution and which carries out directly all or
Security Council Resolutions.
some of the transactions inherent in the business of
financial or credit institutions;
The power to amend the lists in Annexes VII and VIII to
(15)
( 1 ) OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1.
this Regulation should be exercised by the Council, in
( 2 ) OJ L 281, 23.11.1995, p. 31.
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(b) ‘brokering services’ means
and of the Council of 5 November 2002 concerning
life assurance ( 4 ), insofar as it carries out activities
covered by that Directive;
(i) the negotiation or arrangement of transactions for the
purchase, sale or supply of goods and technology from
(iii) an investment firm as defined in point 1 of Article 4(1)
a third country to any other third country, or
of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in
financial instruments ( 5 );
(ii) the selling or buying of goods and technology that are
located in third countries for their transfer to another
third country.
(iv) a collective investment undertaking marketing its units
or shares; or
(c) ‘contract or transaction’ means any transaction of whatever
form and whatever the applicable law, whether comprising
(v) an insurance intermediary as defined in Article 2(5) of
one or more contracts or similar obligations made between
Directive 2002/92/EC of the European Parliament and
the same or different parties; for this purpose ‘contract’
of the Council of 9 December 2002 on insurance
includes a bond, guarantee or indemnity, particularly a
mediation ( 6 ), with the exception of intermediaries
financial guarantee or financial indemnity, and credit,
referred to in Article 2(7) of that Directive, when
whether legally independent or not, as well as any related
they act in respect of life insurance and other
provision arising under, or in connection with, the trans
investment related services;
action;
including its branches inside or outside the Union.
(d) ‘credit institution’ means a credit institution as defined in
Article 4(1) of Directive 2006/48/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 relating
(h) ‘freezing of economic resources’ means preventing the use
to the taking up and pursuit of the business of credit
of economic resources to obtain funds, goods or services in
institutions ( 1 ), including its branches inside or outside
any way, including, but not limited to, by selling, hiring or
the Union;
mortgaging them;
(i) ‘freezing of funds’ means preventing any move, transfer,
(e) ‘customs territory of the Union’ means the territory as
alteration, use of, access to, or dealing with funds in any
defined in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
way that would result in any change in their volume,
2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the
amount, location, ownership, possession, character, desti
Community Customs Code ( 2 ) and in Commission Regu
nation or other change that would enable the funds to
lation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down
be used, including portfolio management;
provisions for the implementation of Regulation (EEC)
No 2913/92 ( 3 );
(j) ‘funds’ means financial assets and benefits of every kind,
including, but not limited to
(f) ‘economic resources’ means assets of every kind, whether
tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, which are
not funds, but which may be used to obtain funds, goods
(i) cash, cheques, claims on money, drafts, money orders
or services;
and other payment instruments;
(g) ‘financial institution’ means
(ii) deposits with financial institutions or other entities,
balances on accounts, debts and debt obligations;
(i) an undertaking, other than a credit institution, which
carries out one or more of the operations included in
(iii) publicly-and privately-traded securities and debt
points 2 to 12 and points 14 and 15 of Annex I to
instruments, including stocks and shares, certificates
Directive 2006/48/EC, including the activities of
representing securities, bonds, notes, warrants,
currency exchange offices (bureaux de change);
debentures and derivatives contracts;
(ii) an insurance company duly authorised in accordance
(iv) interest, dividends or other income on or value
with Directive 2002/83/EC of the European Parliament
accruing from or generated by assets;
( 1 ) OJ L 177, 30.6.2006, p. 1.
( 4 ) OJ L 345, 19.12.2002, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1.
( 5 ) OJ L 145, 30.4.2004, p. 1.
( 3 ) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
( 6 ) OJ L 9, 15.1.2003, p. 3.
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(v) credit, right of set-off, guarantees, performance bonds
(r) ‘transfer of funds’ means any transaction carried out on
or other financial commitments;
behalf of a payer through a payment service provider by
electronic means, with a view to making funds available to
a payee at a payment service provider, irrespective of
whether the payer and the payee are the same person.
(vi) letters of credit, bills of lading, bills of sale; and
The terms payer, payee and payment service provider
have the same meaning as in Regulation (EC) No
1781/2006 of the European Parliament and of
(vii) documents showing evidence of an interest in funds
the Council of 15 November 2006 on information on
or financial resources;
the payer accompanying transfers of funds ( 1 );
(k) ‘goods’ includes items, materials and equipment;
(s) ‘claim’ means any claim, whether asserted by legal
proceedings or not, made before or after the date of
(l) ‘insurance’ means an undertaking or commitment whereby
entry into force of this Regulation, under or in connection
one or more natural or legal persons is or are obliged, in
with a contract or transaction, and includes in particular
return for a payment, to provide one or more other
persons, in the event of materialisation of a risk, with an
indemnity or a benefit as determined by the undertaking or
commitment;
(i) a claim for performance of any obligation arising
under or in connection with a contract or transaction;
(m) ‘Iranian person, entity or body’ means
(ii) a claim for extension or payment of a bond, financial
(i) the State of Iran or any public authority thereof;
guarantee or indemnity of whatever form;
(ii) any natural person in, or resident in, Iran;
(iii) a claim for compensation in respect of a contract or
transaction;
(iii) any legal person, entity or body having its registered
office in Iran;
(iv) a counterclaim;
(iv) any legal person, entity or body, inside or outside Iran,
owned or controlled directly or indirectly by one or
more of the above mentioned persons or bodies;
(v) a claim for the recognition or enforcement, including
by the procedure of exequatur, of a judgment, an arbi
tration award or an equivalent decision, wherever made
(n) ‘reinsurance’ means the activity consisting in accepting risks
or given.
ceded by an insurance undertaking or by another rein
surance undertaking or, in the case of the association of
underwriters known as Lloyd’s, the activity consisting in
accepting risks, ceded by any member of Lloyd’s, by an
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insurance or reinsurance undertaking other than the
association of underwriters known as Lloyd’s;
EXPORT AND IMPORT RESTRICTIONS
Article 2
(o) ‘Sanctions Committee’ means the Committee of the United
1. It shall be prohibited
Nations Security Council which was established pursuant to
paragraph 18 of United Nations Security Council
Resolution (‘UNSCR’) 1737 (2006);
(a) to sell, supply, transfer or export, directly or indirectly, the
goods and technology listed in Annexes I and II, whether or
(p) ‘technical assistance’ means any technical support related to
not originating in the Union, to any Iranian person, entity
repairs, development, manufacture, assembly, testing, main
or body or for use in Iran; or
tenance, or any other technical service, and may take forms
such as instruction, advice, training, transmission of
working knowledge or skills or consulting services;
(b) to sell, supply, transfer or export, directly or indirectly,
including verbal forms of assistance;
equipment which might be used for internal repression as
listed in Annex III, whether or not originating in the Union,
to any Iranian person, entity or body or for use in Iran;
(q) ‘territory of the Union’ means the territories of the Member
States to which the Treaty is applicable, under the
conditions laid down in the Treaty, including their airspace;
( 1 ) OJ L 345, 8.12.2006, p. 1.
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(c) to participate, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the
or export thereof
would
contribute
to
one
of
the
object or effect of which is to circumvent the prohibitions
following activities
referred to in points (a) and (b).
(a) Iran's enrichment-related, reprocessing or heavy water-
related activities;
2. Annex I shall include goods and technology, including
software, which are dual-use items or technology as defined
in Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a
(b) the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems by
Community regime for the control of exports, transfer,
Iran; or
brokering and transit of dual-use items, except for the goods
and technology defined in Category 5 of Annex I to that Regu
lation which are not included in the Nuclear Suppliers Group
(c) the pursuit by Iran of activities related to other topics about
and Missile Technology Control Regime lists.
which the IAEA has expressed concerns or has identified as
outstanding.
3. Annex II shall include other goods and technology which
could contribute to Iran's enrichment-related, reprocessing or
6. Under the conditions set out in paragraph 5, the
heavy-water-related activities, to the development of nuclear
competent authorities of the Member States, as identified on
weapon delivery systems, or to the pursuit of activities related
the websites listed in Annex V, may annul, suspend, modify
to other topics about which the IAEA has expressed concerns or
or revoke an export authorisation which they have granted.
has identified as outstanding, including those determined by the
UN Security Council or by the Sanctions Committee.
7. Where the competent authority of a Member State refuses
to grant an authorisation, or annul, suspend, substantially limit
4. Annexes I, II and III shall not include goods and tech
or revoke an authorisation in accordance with paragraph 5, the
nology included in the Common Military List of the European
Member State shall notify the other Member States and
Union ( 1 ) (‘Common Military List’).
the Commission thereof and share the relevant information
with them, while complying with the provisions concerning
the confidentiality of such information of Council Regulation
Article 3
(EC) No 515/97 of 13 March 1997 on mutual assistance
between the administrative authorities of the Member States
1. A prior authorisation shall be required for the sale, supply,
and cooperation between the latter and the Commission to
transfer or export, directly or indirectly, of the goods and tech
ensure the correct application of the law on customs and agri
nology listed in Annex IV, whether or not originating in the
cultural matters ( 2 ).
Union, to any Iranian person, entity or body or for use in Iran.
8. Before a Member State grants an authorisation in
2. For all exports for which an authorisation is required
accordance with paragraph 5 for a transaction which is
under this Article, such authorisation shall be granted by the
essentially identical to a transaction which is the subject of a
competent authorities of the Member State where the exporter
still valid denial issued by another Member State or by other
is established and shall be in accordance with the detailed rules
Member States under paragraphs 6 and 7, it will first consult
laid down in Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 428/2009. The
the Member State or States which issued the denial. If, following
authorisation shall be valid throughout the Union.
such consultations, the Member State concerned decides to
grant an authorisation, it shall inform the other Member
States and the Commission thereof, providing all relevant
3. Annex IV shall include any goods and technology, other
information to explain the decision.
than those included in Annexes I and II, which could contribute
to enrichment-related, reprocessing or heavy water-related
activities, to the development of nuclear weapon delivery
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systems, or to the pursuit of activities related to other topics
It shall be prohibited to purchase, import or transport from Iran
about which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
the goods and technology listed in Annexes I, II and III, whether
has expressed concerns or has identified as outstanding.
the item concerned originates in Iran or not.
4. Exporters shall supply the competent authorities with all
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relevant information required for their application for an export
authorisation.
1. It shall be prohibited
5. The competent authorities of the Member States, as
(a) to provide, directly or indirectly, technical assistance related
identified on the websites listed in Annex V, shall not grant
to the goods and technology listed in the Common Military
List, or related to the provision, manufacture, maintenance
any authorisation for any sale, supply, transfer or export of the
goods or technology included in Annex IV, if they have
and use of goods included in that list, to any Iranian person,
reasonable grounds to determine that the sale, supply, transfer
entity or body or for use in Iran;
( 1 ) OJ C 69, 18.3.2010, p. 19.
( 2 ) OJ L 82, 22.3.1997, p. 1.
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(b) to provide, directly or indirectly, technical assistance or
brokering services related to the goods and technology
Article 2(1)(a) shall not apply to
listed in Annexes I and II, or related to the provision, manu
facture, maintenance and use of goods listed in Annexes I
and II, to any Iranian person, entity or body or for use in
Iran;
(a) the direct or indirect transfer of goods falling within Part B
of Annex I, through the territories of Member States when
those goods are sold, supplied, transferred or exported to, or
(c) to provide, directly or indirectly, technical assistance or
for use in, Iran for a light water reactor in Iran the
brokering services related to equipment which might be
construction of which has begun before December 2006;
used for internal repression as listed in Annex III, to any
Iranian person, entity or body or for use in Iran;
(b) transactions mandated by the International Atomic Energy
(d) to provide, directly or indirectly, financing or financial
Agency (IAEA) technical cooperation programme;
assistance related to the goods and technology listed in
the Common Military List or in Annexes I, II and III,
including in particular grants, loans and export credit
insurance, for any sale, supply, transfer or export of such
(c) goods supplied, transferred to or for use in, Iran due to
items, or for any provision of related technical assistance to
obligations of State Parties under the Paris Convention on
any Iranian person, entity or body or for use in Iran;
the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling
and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction of
13 January 1993.
(e) to participate, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the
object or effect of which is to circumvent the prohibitions
referred to in points (a) to (d).
Article 7
2. The provision of the following shall be subject to an
1. The competent authorities of the Member States, as
authorisation from the competent authority of the Member
identified on the websites listed in Annex V, may grant,
State concerned
under such terms and conditions as they deem appropriate,
an authorisation for a transaction in relation to goods and
technology referred to in Article 2(1) or assistance or
(a) technical assistance or brokering services related to goods
brokering services referred to in Article 5(1), if they determine,
and technology listed in Annex IV and to the provision,
except when subparagraph (c) applies, that the transaction
manufacture, maintenance and use of those items, directly
would clearly not contribute to the development of technologies
or indirectly to any Iranian person, entity or body or for use
in support of Iran's proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities, or
in Iran;
to the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems,
including where such goods and technology, assistance or
brokering services are for food, agricultural, medical or other
(b) financing or financial assistance related to goods and tech
humanitarian purposes, and if the following conditions are met
nologies referred to in Annex IV, including in particular
grants, loans and export credit insurance, for any sale,
supply, transfer or export of those items, or for any
provision of related technical assistance, directly or
(a) the contract for delivery of the goods or technology, or for
indirectly, to any Iranian person, entity or body or for use
the provision of assistance or brokering services, includes
in Iran.
appropriate end-user guarantees;
3. The competent authorities of the Member States, as
identified on the websites listed in Annex V, shall not grant
(b) Iran has undertaken not to use the goods or technology
any authorisation for the transactions referred to in paragraph
concerned, or if applicable, the assistance or brokering
2, if they have reasonable grounds to determine that the action
services concerned, in proliferation-sensitive nuclear
would contribute to one of the following activities
activities or for development of nuclear weapon delivery
systems; and
(a) Iran's enrichment-related, reprocessing or heavy water-
related activities;
(c) in those cases where the transaction concerns goods or
technology contained in the Nuclear Suppliers Group or
(b) the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems by
Missile Technology Control Regime lists, the Sanctions
Iran; or
Committee has determined in advance and on a case-by-
case basis that the transaction would clearly not contribute
(c) the pursuit by Iran of activities related to other topics about
to the development of technologies in support of Iran's
which the IAEA has expressed concerns or has identified as
proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities, or to the devel
outstanding.
opment of nuclear weapon development delivery systems.
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2. The Member State concerned shall inform the other
date of entry into force of this Regulation, or by a contract or
Member States and the Commission when it rejects a request
agreement concluded before 26 July 2010 and relating to an
for an authorisation.
investment in Iran made before 26 July 2010, nor shall they
prevent the execution of an obligation arising therefrom,
provided that the natural or legal person, entity or body
seeking to engage in the transaction or to provide assistance
3. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to transactions or brokering
has notified, at least 20 working days in advance, the trans
services in relation to goods and technology referred to in
action or assistance to the competent authorities of the
Annex III.
Member State in which it is established, as identified on the
websites listed in Annex V.
Article 8
1. It shall be prohibited to sell, supply, transfer or export key
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equipment or technology listed in Annex VI, directly or
indirectly, to any Iranian person, entity or body or for use in,
RESTRICTIONS ON FINANCING OF CERTAIN ENTREPRISES
Iran.
Article 11
1. The following shall be prohibited
2. Annex VI shall include key equipment and technology for
the following key sectors of the oil and gas industry in Iran
(a) the granting of any financial loan or credit to any Iranian
person, entity or body referred to in paragraph (2);
(a) exploration of crude oil and natural gas;
(b) production of crude oil and natural gas;
(b) the acquisition or extension of a participation in any Iranian
person, entity or body referred to in paragraph (2);
(c) refining;
(c) the creation of any joint venture with any Iranian person,
entity or body referred to in paragraph (2).
(d) liquefaction of natural gas.
(d) the participation, knowingly and intentionally, in activities,
3. Annex VI shall not include items included in the Common
the object or effect of which is to circumvent the
Military List, or in Annex I, Annex II or Annex IV.
prohibitions referred to in points (a), (b) and (c).
Article 9
2. The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall apply to any Iranian
It shall be prohibited
person, entity or body engaged
(a) to provide, directly or indirectly, technical assistance or
(a) in the manufacture of goods or technology listed in the
brokering services related to the key equipment and tech
Common Military List or in Annex I or II;
nology listed in Annex VI, or related to the provision,
manufacture, maintenance and use of goods listed in
Annex VI, to any Iranian person, entity or body or for
use in Iran.
(b) in the manufacture of equipment which might be used for
internal repression as listed in Annex III;
(b) to provide, directly or indirectly, financing or financial
assistance related to the key equipment and technology
(c) in the exploration or production of crude oil and natural
listed in Annex VI, to any Iranian person, entity or body
gas, the refining of fuels or the liquefaction of natural gas.
or for use in Iran.
(c) to participate, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the
3. For the purposes of paragraph 2(c) only, the following
object or effect of which is to circumvent the prohibitions
definitions shall apply
referred to in points (a) and (b).
(a) ‘exploration of crude oil and natural gas’ includes the explo
Article 10
ration for, prospection of and management of crude oil and
The prohibitions in Articles 8 and 9 shall not apply to
natural gas reserves, as well as the provision of geological
services in relation to such reserves;
transactions required by a trade contract concluded before the
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(b) ‘production of crude oil and natural gas’ includes bulk gas
(a) the Iranian person, entity or body has committed itself to
transmission services for the purpose of transit or delivery
apply appropriate end-user guarantees as regards the goods
to directly interconnected grids;
or technology concerned;
(c) ‘refining’ means the processing, conditioning or preparation
(b) Iran has undertaken not to use the goods or technology
for the ultimately final sale of fuels.
concerned in proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities or for
development of nuclear weapon delivery systems; and
4. It shall be prohibited to establish cooperation with an
Iranian person, entity or body engaged in the transmission of
(c) in those cases where the investment is made in an Iranian
natural gas as referred to in paragraph 3(b).
person, entity or body engaged in the manufacture of goods
or technology contained in the Nuclear Suppliers Group and
Missile Technology Control Regime lists, the Sanctions
Committee has determined in advance and on a case-by-
5. For the purposes of paragraph 4, ‘cooperation’ means
case basis that the transaction would clearly not contribute
to the development of technologies in support of Iran's
proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities, or to the devel
(a) the sharing of investment costs in an integrated or managed
opment of nuclear weapon development delivery systems.
supply chain for the receipt or delivery of natural gas
directly from or to the territory of Iran; and
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(b) direct co-operation for the purpose of investing in liquefied
Article 11(2)(c) shall not apply to the granting of a financial
natural gas facilities within the territory of Iran or in
loan or credit or to the acquisition or extension of a partici
liquefied natural gas facilities directly connected thereto.
pation , if the following conditions are met
Article 12
(a) the transaction is required by an agreement or contract
concluded before 26 July 2010; and
1. The making of an investment through transactions
referred to in Article 11(1) in an Iranian person, entity or
body engaged in the manufacture of goods or technology
listed in Annex IV shall be subject to an authorisation from
(b) the competent authority has been informed at least 20
the competent authority of the Member State concerned.
working days in advance of that agreement or contract.
2. The competent authorities of the Member States, as
Article 15
identified on the websites listed in Annex V, shall not grant
It shall be prohibited
any authorisation for the transactions referred to in paragraph
1, if they have reasonable grounds to determine that the action
would contribute to one of the following activities
(a) to accept or approve, by concluding an agreement or by
any other means, that the granting of any finacial loan or
credit, or the acquisition or extension of a participation, or
(a) Iran's enrichment-related, reprocessing or heavy water-
the creation of any joint venture be made by one or more
related activities;
Iranian persons, entities or bodies, in an enterprise engaged
in any of the following activities
(b) the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems by
Iran; or
(i) uranium mining,
(c) the pursuit by Iran of activities related to other topics about
which the IAEA has expressed concerns or has identified as
(ii) uranium enrichment and reprocessing of uranium;
outstanding.
(iii) the manufacture of goods or technology included in the
Article 13
Nuclear Suppliers Group and Missile Technology
Control Regime lists.
By way of derogation from Article 11(2)(a), the competent
authorities of the Member States, as identified on the websites
listed in Annex V, may grant, under such terms and conditions
as they deem appropriate, an authorisation to make an
(b) to participate, knowingly and intentionally, in activities, the
investment through transactions referred to in Article 11(1), if
object or effect of which is to circumvent the prohibition in
the following conditions are met
point (a).
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vessels owned by such entities or the cargoes carried by
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them insofar as such cargoes belong to third parties, nor
FREEZING OF FUNDS AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES
does it require the detention of the crew contracted by
them.
Article 16
1. All funds and economic resources belonging to, owned,
held or controlled by the persons, entities and bodies listed in
3. No funds or economic resources shall be made available,
Annex VII shall be frozen. Annex VII shall include the persons,
directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of the natural or legal
entities and bodies designated by the United Nations Security
persons, entities or bodies listed in Annexes VII and VIII.
Council or by the Sanctions Committee in accordance with
paragraph 12 of UNSCR 1737 (2006), paragraph 7 of
UNSCR 1803 (2008) or paragraph 11, 12 or 19 of
UNSCR 1929 (2010).
4. The participation, knowingly and intentionally, in
activities the object or effect of which is, directly or indirectly,
to circumvent the measures referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3
shall be prohibited.
2. All funds and economic resources belonging to, owned,
held or controlled by the persons, entities and bodies listed in
Annex VIII shall be frozen. Annex VIII shall include the natural
and legal persons, entities and bodies, not covered by Annex
5. Annexes VII and VIII shall include the grounds for listing
VII, who, in accordance with Article 20(1)(b) of Council
of listed persons, entities and bodies, as provided by the
Decision 2010/413/CFSP, have been identified as
Security Council or by the Sanctions Committee for Annex VII.
(a) being engaged in, directly associated with, or providing
6. Annexes VII and VIII shall also include, where available,
support for Iran's proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities
information necessary to identify the natural or legal persons,
or the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems
entities and bodies concerned, as provided by the Security
by Iran, including through involvement in the procurement
Council or by the Sanctions Committee for Annex VII. With
of prohibited goods and technology, or being owned or
regard to natural persons, such information may include names
controlled by such a person, entity or body, including
including aliases, date and place of birth, nationality, passport
through illicit means, or acting on their behalf or at
and ID card numbers, gender, adress, if known, and function or
their direction;
profession. With regard to legal persons, entities and bodies,
such information may include names, place and date of regis
tration, registration number and place of business. Annex VII
shall also include the date of designation by the Security
(b) being a natural or legal person, entity or body that has
Council or by the Sanctions Committee.
assisted a listed person, entity or body to evade or violate
the
provisions
of
this
Regulation,
Council
Decision 2010/413/CFSP or UNSCR 1737 (2006), UNSCR
1747 (2007), UNSCR 1803 (2008) and UNSCR 1929
Article 17
(2010);
By way of derogation from Article 16, the competent
authorities of the Member States, as indicated on the websites
listed in Annex V, may authorise the release of certain frozen
(c) being a senior member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
funds or economic resources, if the following conditions are
Corps or a legal person, entity or body owned or controlled
met
by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or by one of
more of its senior members;
(a) the funds or economic resources are the subject of a
judicial, administrative or arbitral lien established before
(d) being a legal person, entity or body owned or controlled by
the date on which the person, entity or body referred to
the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL).
in Article 16 has been designated by the Sanctions
Committee, the Security Council or the Council or of a
judicial, administrative or arbitral judgment rendered prior
to that date;
It shall be prohibited, pursuant to the obligation to freeze
the funds and economic resources of IRISL and of
designated entities owned or controlled by IRISL, to load
and unload cargoes on and from vessels owned or chartered
(b) the funds or economic resources will be used exclusively to
by IRISL or by such entities in ports of Member States. That
satisfy claims secured by such a lien or recognised as valid
prohibition shall not prevent the execution of a contract
in such a judgment, within the limits set by applicable laws
concluded before the entry into force of this Regulation.
and regulations governing the rights of persons having such
claims;
The obligation to freeze the funds and economic resources
of IRISL and of designated entities owned or controlled by
(c) the lien or judgment is not for the benefit of a person,
IRISL shall not require the impounding or detention of
entity or body listed in Annex VII or VIII;
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(d) recognising the lien or judgment is not contrary to public
(a) the competent authority concerned has determined that the
policy in the Member State concerned; and
funds or economic resources are
(e) where Article 16(1) applies, the Sanctions Committee has
(i) necessary to satisfy the basic needs of persons listed in
been notified by the Member State of the lien or judgment.
Annex VII or VIII, and their dependent family members,
including payments for foodstuffs, rent or mortgage,
medicines and medical treatment, taxes, insurance
premiums, and public utility charges;
Article 18
By way of derogation from Article 16 and provided that a
payment by a person, entity or body listed in Annex VII or
VIII is due under a contract or agreement that was concluded
(ii) intended exclusively for payment of reasonable profes
by, or an obligation that arose for the person, entity or body
sional fees and reimbursement of incurred expenses
concerned, before the date on which that person, entity or body
associated with the provision of legal services; or
had been designated by the Sanctions Committee, the Security
Council or by the Council, the competent authorities of the
Member States, as indicated on the websites listed in
(iii) intended exclusively for payment of fees or service
Annex V, may authorise, under such conditions as they deem
charges for routine holding or maintenance of frozen
appropriate, the release of certain frozen funds or economic
funds or economic resources; and
resources, if the following conditions are met
(a) the competent authority concerned has determined that
(b) where the authorisation concerns a person, entity or body
listed in Annex VII, the Member State concerned has
notified the Sanctions Committee of that determination
and its intention to grant an authorisation, and the
(i) the funds or economic resources shall be used for a
Sanctions Committee has not objected to that course of
payment by a person, entity or body listed in Annex
action within five working days of notification.
VII or VIII;
(ii) the contract, agreement or obligation will not
2. By way of derogation from Article 16, the competent
contribute to the manufacture, sale, purchase, transfer,
authorities of the Member States, as indicated on the websites
export, import, transport or use of goods and tech
listed in Annex V, may authorise the release of certain frozen
nology listed in Annexes I, II, III and VI; and
funds or economic resources or the making available of certain
funds or economic resources, after having determined that the
funds or economic resources are necessary for extraordinary
expenses or for payment for or transfer of goods when
(iii) the payment is not in breach of Article 16(3);
procured for a light water reactor in Iran the construction of
which has begun before December 2006, or for goods referred
to in Article 6(b) and (c), provided that the following conditions
(b) where Article 16(1) applies, the Member State concerned
are met
has notified the Sanctions Committee of that determination
and its intention to grant an authorisation, and the
Sanctions Committee has not objected to that course of
(a) where the authorisation concerns a person, entity or body
action within ten working days of notification; and
listed in Annex VII, the Sanctions Committee has been
notified of that determination by the Member State
concerned and the determination has been approved by
(c) where Article 16(2) applies, the Member State concerned
that Committee; and
has, at least two weeks prior to the grant of the authori
sation, notified the other Member States and the Commision
of that determination and its intention to grant an auth
orisation.
(b) where the authorisation concerns a person, entity or body
listed in Annex VIII, the competent authority has notified
the grounds on which it considers that a specific authori
sation should be granted to the other competent authorities
Article 19
of the Member States and to the Commission at least two
1. By way of derogation from Article 16, the competent
weeks before the authorisation.
authorities of the Member States, as identified on the websites
listed in Annex V, may authorise, under such conditions as they
deem appropriate, the release of certain frozen funds or
economic resources, or the making available of certain funds
3. The relevant Member State shall inform the other Member
or economic resources, provided that the following conditions
States and the Commission of any authorisation granted under
are met
paragraphs 1 or 2.
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Article 20
2. These provisions shall apply regardless of whether the
transfer of funds is executed in a single operation or in
1. Article 16(3) shall not prevent financial or credit insti
several operations which appear to be linked.
tutions from crediting frozen accounts where they receive
funds transferred onto the account of a listed natural or legal
person, entity or body, provided that any additions to such
accounts shall also be frozen. The financial or credit institution
3. Notifications and requests for authorisation relating to the
shall inform the competent authorities about such transactions
transfer of funds to an Iranian person, entity or body shall be
without delay.
addressed by or on behalf of the payment service provider of
the payer as referred to in Article 1(r) to the competent
authorities of the Member State where the initial order to
execute the transfer is given.
2. Article 16(3) shall not apply to the addition to frozen
accounts of
Notifications and requests for authorisation relating to the
(a) interest or other earnings on those accounts; or
transfer of funds from an Iranian person, entity or body shall
be addressed by or on behalf of the payment service provider of
the payee as referred to in Article 1(r) to the competent
authorities of the Member State in which the payee is resident
(b) payments due under contracts, agreements or obligations
or the payment service provider is established.
that were concluded or arose before the date on which
the person, entity or body referred to in Article 16 has
been designated by the Sanctions Committee, the Security
Council or by the Council;
If the payments service provider of the payer or the payee does
not fall under the scope of Article 39, notifications and requests
for authorisation shall be addressed by the payer or payee to the
provided that any such interest or other earnings and payments
competent authorities of the Member State in which the payer
are frozen in accordance with Article 16(1) or (2).
or payee is resident.
3. This Article shall not be construed as authorising transfers
4. For the purposes of paragraph 1(c), the competent
of funds referred to in Article 21.
authorities of the Member States, as identified on the websites
listed in Annex V, shall grant, under such terms and conditions
as they deem appropriate, an authorisation for a transfer of
funds having a value of EUR 40 000 or more, unless they
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have reasonable grounds to determine that the transfer of
RESTRICTIONS
ON TRANSFERS OF FUNDS
AND
ON
funds for which the authorisation is requested, would contribute
FINANCIAL SERVICES
to one of the following activities
Article 21
1. Transfer of funds to and from an Iranian person, entity or
body shall be processed as follows
(a) Iran's enrichment-related, reprocessing or heavy water-
related activities;
(a) transfers due on transactions regarding foodstuffs,
healthcare, medical equipment, or for humanitarian
(b) the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems by
purposes shall be carried out without any prior authori
Iran;
sation. The transfer shall be notified in advance in writing
to the competent authorities of the Member States, as
identified on the websites listed in Annex V, if above
EUR 10 000 or equivalents;
(c) the pursuit by Iran of activities related to other topics about
which the IAEA has expressed concerns or has identified as
outstanding; or
(b) any other transfer below EUR 40 000 shall be carried out
without any prior authorisation. The transfer shall be
notified in advance in writing to the competent authorities
(d) prohibited activities related to the exploration of crude oil
of the Member States, as identified on the websites listed in
and natural gas, production of crude oil and natural gas,
Annex V, if above EUR 10 000 or equivalent;
refining, or liquefaction of natural gas as referred to in
Articles 8, 9 and 11 by an Iranian person, entity or body.
(c) any other transfer of or above EUR 40 000 or equivalent
shall require a prior authorisation of the competent
authorities of the Member States, as identified on the
A competent authority may charge a fee for the assessment
websites listed in Annex V.
of requests for authorisation.
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An authorisation shall be deemed granted if a competent
(b) require that in payment instructions all information fields
authority has received a request in writing for authorisation
which relate to the originator and beneficiary of the trans
and, within four weeks, the competent authority has not
action in question be completed and if that information is
objected in writing to the transfer of funds. If the
not supplied, refuse the transaction;
objection is raised because an investigation is pending, the
competent authority shall state this and communicate its
decision as soon as possible. The competent authorities
shall have access, directly or indirectly, on a timely basis
(c) maintain all records of transactions for a period of five years
to the financial, administrative and law enforcement related
and make them available to national authorities on request;
information necessary for carrying out the investigation.
(d) if they suspect or have reasonable grounds to suspect that
The Member State concerned shall inform the other
funds are related to proliferation financing, promptly report
Member States and the Commission when it rejects a
their suspicions to the financial intelligence unit (FIU) or to
request for authorisation.
another competent authority designated by the Member
State concerned, as indicated on the websites listed in
Annex V, without prejudice to Articles 5 and 16. The FIU
5. This article shall not apply where an authorisation for a
or such other competent authority will serve as a national
transfer has been granted in accordance with Articles 13, 17,
centre for receiving and analysing suspicious transaction
18, 19 or 20.
reports regarding potential proliferation financing. The FIU
or such other competent authority shall have access, directly
or indirectly, on a timely basis to the financial, adminis
trative and law enforcement information that it requires
Article 22
to properly undertake this function, including the analysis
1. Branches and subsidiaries, falling within the scope of
of suspicious transaction reports.
Article 39, of credit and financial institutions domiciled in
Iran shall notify the competent authority of the Member State
where they are established, as identified on the website
mentioned in Annex V, of all transfers of funds carried out
The above requirements for credit and financial institutions shall
or received by them, the names of the parties and the
be complementary to existing obligations deriving from Regu
amount and the date of the transaction, within five working
lation (EC) No 1781/2006 and from the implementation of
days after carrying out or receiving the transfer of funds
Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the
concerned. If the information is available, the notification
Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of
must specify the nature of the transaction and, where appro
the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and
priate, the nature of the goods covered by the transaction and
terrorist financing ( 1 ).
must, in particular, state whether the goods are covered by
Annex I, II, III, IV or VI of this Regulation and, if their
export is subject to authorisation, indicate the number of the
licence granted.
2. The measures set out in paragraph 1 shall apply to credit
and financial institutions in their activities with
2. Subject to and in accordance with the information-sharing
arrangements, the other notified competent authorities shall
without delay transmit that data, as necessary, in order to
(a) credit and financial institutions domiciled in Iran, including
prevent any transaction that could contribute to proliferation-
the Central Bank of Iran;
sensitive nuclear activities or to the development of nuclear
weapons delivery systems, to the competent authorities of
other Member States where the counterparts to such trans
actions are established.
(b) branches and subsidiaries, where they fall within the scope
of Article 39, of credit and financial institutions domiciled
in Iran;
Article 23
1. Credit and financial institutions which fall within the
scope of Article 39 shall, in their activities with credit and
(c) branches and subsidiaries, where they do not fall within the
financial institutions referred to in paragraph 2, and in order
scope of Article 39, of credit and financial institutions
to prevent such activities from contributing to proliferation-
domiciled in Iran;
sensitive nuclear activities or to the development of nuclear
weapon delivery systems
(d) credit and financial institutions that are not domiciled in
Iran but are controlled by persons and entities domiciled
(a) exercise continuous vigilance over account activity,
in Iran.
particularly through their programmes on customer due
diligence and under their obligations relating to money
laundering and financing of terrorism;
( 1 ) OJ L 309, 25.11.2005, p. 15.
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Article 24
(d) to acquire or to extend a participation, or to acquire any
other ownership interest, in a credit or financial institution
1. It shall be prohibited for credit and financial institutions
falling within the scope of Article 39 by any credit or
falling within the scope of Article 39 to do any of the
financial institution referred to in Article 23(2).
following
Article 25
It shall be prohibited
(a) to open a new bank account with a credit or financial
institution domiciled in Iran, including the Central Bank
of Iran, or with any credit or financial institution referred
to in Article 23(2);
(a) to sell or purchase public or public-guaranteed bonds issued
after 26 July 2010, directly or indirectly, to or from any of
the following
(b) to establish a new correspondent banking relationship with
(i) Iran or its Government, and its public bodies,
a credit or financial institution domiciled in Iran, including
corporations and agencies;
the Central Bank of Iran, or with any credit or financial
institution referred to in Article 23(2),
(ii) a credit or financial institution domiciled in Iran,
including the Central Bank of Iran, or any credit or
financial institution referred to in Article 23(2);
(c) to open a new representative office in Iran or to establish a
new branch or subsidiary in Iran;
(iii) a natural person or a legal person, entity or body acting
on behalf or at the direction of a legal person, entity or
body referred to in (i) or (ii);
(d) to establish a new joint venture with a credit or financial
institution domiciled in Iran, including the Central Bank of
Iran, or with any credit or financial institution referred to in
(iv) a legal person, entity or body owned or controlled by a
Article 23(2).
person, entity or body referred to in (i), (ii) or (iii);
(b) to provide brokering services with regard to public or
2. It shall be prohibited
public-guaranteed bonds issued after 26 July 2010 to a
person, entity or body referred to in point (a);
(a) to authorise the opening of a representative office or the
(c) to assist a person, entity or body referred to in point (a) in
establishment of a branch or subsidiary in the Union of a
order to issue public or public-guaranteed bonds, by
credit or financial institution domiciled in Iran, including
providing brokering services, advertising or any other
the Central Bank of Iran, or of any credit or financial insti
service with regard to such bonds.
tution referred to in Article 23(2);
Article 26
1. It shall be prohibited
(b) to conclude agreements for, or on behalf of, a credit or
financial institution domiciled in Iran, including the
Central Bank of Iran, or for, or on behalf of, any credit
(a) to provide insurance or re-insurance to
or financial institution referred to in Article 23(2) pertaining
to the opening of a representative office or the estab
lishment of a branch or subsidiary in the Union;
(i) Iran or its Government, and its public bodies,
corporations and agencies;
(c) to grant an authorisation for taking up and pursuing the
(ii) an Iranian person, entity or body other than a natural
business of credit institution or for any other business
person; or
requiring prior authorisation, by a representative office,
branch or subsidiary of a credit or financial institution
domiciled in Iran, including the Central Bank of Iran, or
of any credit or financial institution referred to in
(iii) a natural person or a legal person, entity or body when
Article 23(2), if the representative office, branch or
acting on behalf or at the direction of a legal person,
subsidiary was not operational before 26 July 2010.
entity or body referred to in (i) or (ii).
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(b) to participate, knowingly and intentionally, in activities, the
3. Furthermore, the person who provides the information
object or effect of which is to circumvent the prohibition in
referred to in paragraph 2, shall declare whether the goods
point (a).
are covered by the Common Military List or by this Regulation
and, where their export is subject to authorisation, specify the
particulars of the export licence granted.
2. Points (i) and (ii) of paragraph 1(a) shall not apply to the
provision of compulsory or third party insurance to Iranian
persons, entities or bodies based in the Union.
4. Until 31 December 2010 the entry and exit summary
declarations and the required additional elements referred to
in paragraph 3 may be submitted in written form using
commercial, port or transport information, provided that they
3. Point (iii) of paragraph 1(a) shall not apply to the
contain the necessary details.
provision of insurance, including health and travel insurance,
to individuals acting in their private capacity, except for
persons listed in Annexes VII and VIII, and re-insurance
relating thereto.
5. As from 1 January 2011, the required additional elements
referred to in this Article shall be submitted either in written
form or using a customs declaration as appropriate.
Point (iii) of paragraph 1(a) shall not prevent the provision of
insurance or re-insurance to the owner of a vessel, aircraft or
vehicle chartered by a person, entity or body referred to in
point (i) or (ii) of paragraph 1(a) and which is not listed in
Article 28
Annexes VII or VIII.
1. The provision by nationals of Member States or from the
territories of Member States of bunkering or ship supply
services, or any other servicing of vessels, to vessels owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by an Iranian person, entity or
For the purpose of point (iii) of paragraph 1(a), a person, entity
body shall be prohibited where the providers of the service have
or body shall not be considered to act at the direction of a
information, including from the competent customs authorities
person, entity or body referred to in points (i) and (ii) of
on the basis of the pre-arrival and pre-departure information
paragraph 1(a) where that direction is for the purposes of
referred to in Article 27, that provides reasonable grounds to
docking, loading, unloading or safe transit of a vessel or
believe that the vessels carry goods covered by the Common
aircraft temporarly in Iranian waters or airspace.
Military List or goods whose supply, sale, transfer or export is
prohibited under this Regulation, unless the provision of such
services is necessary for humanitarian purposes.
4. This Article prohibits the extension or renewal of
insurance and re-insurance agreements concluded before the
entry into force of this Regulation, but, without prejudice to
Article 16(3), it does not prohibit compliance with agreements
2. The provision by nationals of Member States, or from the
concluded before that date.
territories of Member States, of engineering and maintenance
services to cargo aircraft owned or controlled, directly or
indirectly, by an Iranian person, entity or body shall be
prohibited, where the providers of the service have information,
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including from the competent customs authorities on the basis
of the pre-arrival and pre-departure information referred to in
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Article 27, that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the
cargo aircraft carry goods covered by the Common Military List
Article 27
or goods the supply, sale, transfer or export of which is
1. To prevent the transfer of goods and technology which
prohibited under this Regulation, unless the provision of such
are covered by the Common Military List or the supply, sale,
services is necessary for humanitarian and safety purposes.
transfer, export or import of which is prohibited by this Regu
lation, all goods brought into or leaving the customs territory of
the Union from or to Iran shall be made subject to pre-arrival
or pre-departure information to be submitted to the competent
3. The prohibitions in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply until
customs authorities of the Member State concerned.
the cargo has been inspected and, if necessary, seized or
disposed of, as the case may be.
2. The rules governing the obligation to provide pre-arrival
and pre-departure information, in particular regarding the
person who provides that information, the time limits to be
Any seizure and disposal may, in accordance with national
respected and the data required, shall be as determined in the
legislation or the decision of a competent authority, be
relevant provisions concerning entry and exit summary declar
carried out at the expense of the importer or be recovered
ations as well as customs declarations in Regulation (EEC) No
from any other person or entity responsible for the attempted
2913/92 and in Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.
illicit supply, sale, transfer or export.
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(a) supply immediately any information which would facilitate
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compliance with this Regulation, such as information on
GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
accounts and amounts frozen in accordance with
Article 16, to the competent authorities of the Member
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States, as indicated on the websites listed in Annex V,
1. No claims in connection with any contract or transaction
where they are resident or located, and shall transmit such
the performance of which would have been affected, directly or
information, directly or through the Member States, to the
indirectly, in whole or in part, by the measures imposed under
Commission;
Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 or this Regulation, including
claims for indemnity or any other claim of this type, such as
a claim for compensation or a claim under a guarantee, notably
(b) cooperate with the competent authorities, as indicated on
a claim for extension or payment of a bond, guarantee or
the websites listed in Annex V, in any verification of this
indemnity, particularly a financial guarantee or financial
information.
indemnity, of whatever form, shall be satisfied, if they are
made by
2. Any additional information received directly by the
Commission shall be made available to the Member State
(a) designated persons, entities or bodies listed in Annexes VII
concerned.
and VIII;
(b) any other Iranian person, entity or body, including the
3. Any information provided or received in accordance with
Iranian government;
this Article shall be used only for the purposes for which it was
provided or received.
(c) any person, entity or body acting through or on behalf of
one of the persons, entities or bodies referred to in points
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(a) and (b).
1. The freezing of funds and economic resources or the
refusal to make funds or economic resources available, carried
2. The performance of a contract or transaction shall be
out in good faith on the basis that such action is in accordance
regarded as having been affected by the measures imposed
with this Regulation, shall not give rise to liability of any kind
under Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 or by this Regulation
on the part of the natural or legal person or entity or body
where the existence or content of the claim results directly or
implementing it, or its directors or employees, unless it is
indirectly from those measures.
proved that the funds and economic resources were frozen or
withheld as a result of negligence.
3. In any proceedings for the enforcement of a claim, the
onus of proving that satisfying the claim is not prohibited by
paragraph 1 shall be on the person seeking the enforcement of
2. The prohibitions set out in the present Regulation shall
that claim.
not give rise to liability of any kind on the part of the natural or
legal persons or entities concerned, if they did not know, and
had no reasonable cause to suspect, that their actions would
4. This Article is without prejudice to the right of the
infringe these prohibitions.
persons, entities and bodies referred to in paragraph 1 to
judicial review of the legality of the non-performance of
contractual obligations in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
3. The disclosure in good faith, as provided for in Articles
423/2007 or this Regulation.
21, 22 and 23, by an institution or by a person covered by this
Regulation or an employee or director of such an institution, of
the information referred to in Articles 21, 22 and 23 shall not
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give rise to liability of any kind on the part of the institution or
For the purposes of Articles 8 and 9, point (c) of Article 11(2),
person or its directors or employees.
and Articles 21 and 26, any body, entity or holder of rights
derived from an original award before the entry into force of
this Regulation by a sovereign Government other than Iran, of a
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production sharing agreement shall not be considered an
Iranian person, entity or body. In such cases and in relation
1. A Member State may take all action it deems necessary to
to Article 8, the competent authority of the Member State may
ensure that relevant international, Union or national legal obli
require appropriate end-user guarantees from any body or entity
gations concerning the health and safety of workers and envi
for any sale, supply, transfer or export of any key equipment or
ronmental protection are respected where cooperation with an
technology listed in Annex VI.
Iranian person, entity or body may be affected by the imple
mentation of this Regulation.
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1. Without prejudice to the applicable rules concerning
2. For the purpose of action taken pursuant to paragraph 1,
reporting, confidentiality and professional secrecy, natural and
the prohibitions in Articles 8 and 9, point (c) of Article 11(2),
legal persons, entities and bodies shall
and Articles 16(2), 21 and 26 shall not apply.
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3. Member States shall inform each other in advance of
6. The list in Annex VIII shall be reviewed in regular
action pursuant to paragraph 1.
intervals and at least every 12 months.
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The Commission and Member States shall immediately inform
1. Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties
each other of the measures taken under this Regulation and
applicable to infringements of this Regulation and shall take
shall supply each other with any other relevant information at
all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented.
their disposal in connection with this Regulation, in particular
The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate
information in respect of violations and enforcement problems
and dissuasive.
and judgments issued by national courts.
2. Member States shall notify the Commission of those rules
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without delay after the entry into force of this Regulation and
shall notify it of any subsequent amendment.
The Commission shall
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(a) amend Annex II on the basis of determinations made by
either the United Nations Security Council or the Sanctions
1. Member States shall designate the competent authorities
Committee or on the basis of information supplied by
referred to in this Regulation and identify them on the websites
Member States;
listed in Annex V. Member States shall notify the Commission
of any changes in the addresses of their websites listed in Annex
V.
(b) amend Annex IV on the basis of information supplied by
Member States;
2. Member States shall notify the Commission of their
competent authorities, including the contact details of those
(c) amend Annex V on the basis of information supplied by
competent authorities, without delay after the entry into force
Member States.
of this Regulation, and shall notify it of any subsequent
amendment.
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3. Where this Regulation sets out a requirement to notify,
1. Where the Security Council or the Sanctions Committee
inform or otherwise communicate with the Commission, the
lists a natural or legal person, entity or body, the Council shall
address and other contact details to be used for such communi
include such natural or legal person, entity or body in
cation shall be those indicated in Annex V.
Annex VII.
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2. Where the Council decides to subject a natural or legal
person, entity or body to the measures referred to in
This Regulation shall apply
Article 16(2), it shall amend Annex VIII accordingly.
(a) within the territory of the Union, including its airspace;
3. The Council shall communicate its decision, including the
grounds for listing, to the natural or legal person, entity or body
referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, either directly, if the address
is known, or through the publication of a notice, providing
(b) on board any aircraft or any vessel under the jurisdiction of
such natural or legal person, entity or body with an opportunity
a Member State;
to present observations.
(c) to any person inside or outside the territory of the Union
4. Where observations are submitted, or where substantial
who is a national of a Member State;
new evidence is presented, the Council shall review its
decision and inform the natural or legal person, entity or
body accordingly.
(d) to any legal person, entity or body which is incorporated or
constituted under the law of a Member State;
5. Where the United Nations decides to delist a natural or
legal person, entity or body, or to amend the identifying data of
a listed natural or legal person, entity or body, the Council shall
(e) to any legal person, entity or body in respect of any
amend Annex VII accordingly.
business done in whole or in part within the Union.
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Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 is hereby repealed. References to the repealed regulation shall be construed as
references to this Regulation.
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This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Luxembourg, 25 October 2010
For the Council
The President
C. ASHTON
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PART A
Goods and technology referred to in point (a) of Article 2(1), Articles 2(2) and 4, and points (b) and (d) of
Article 5(1)
This Annex comprises all goods and technology listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009, as defined therein,
Description
Telecommunications systems, equipment, components and accessories as follows
a. Any type of telecommunications equipment having any of the following characteristics,
functions or features
1. Specially designed to withstand transitory electronic effects or electromagnetic pulse
effects, both arising from a nuclear explosion;
2. Specially hardened to withstand gamma, neutron or ion radiation; or
3. Specially designed to operate outside the temperature range from 218 K (– 55 °C) to
397 K (124 °C);
Note: 5A001.a.3. applies only to electronic equipment.
Note: 5A001.a.2. and 5A001.a.3. do not control equipment designed or modified for use
on board satellites.
b. Telecommunication systems and equipment, and specially designed components and
accessories therefor, having any of the following characteristics, functions or features
1. Being underwater untethered communications systems having any of the following
a. An acoustic carrier frequency outside the range from 20 kHz to 60 kHz;
b. Using an electromagnetic carrier frequency below 30 kHz;
c. Using electronic beam steering techniques; or
d. Using ‘lasers’ or light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with an output wavelength greater than
400 nm and less than 700 nm, in a ‘local area network’;
2. Being radio equipment operating in the 1,5 MHz to 87,5 MHz band and having all of
the following
a. Automatically predicting and selecting frequencies and ‘total digital transfer rates’ per
channel to optimise the transmission; and
b. Incorporating a linear power amplifier configuration having a capability to support
multiple signals simultaneously at an output power of 1 kW or more in the
frequency range of 1,5 MHz or more but less than 30 MHz, or 250 W or more
in the frequency range of 30 MHz or more but not exceeding 87,5 MHz, over an
‘instantaneous bandwidth’ of one octave or more and with an output harmonic and
distortion content of better than – 80 dB;
3. Being radio equipment employing ‘spread spectrum’ techniques, including ‘frequency
hopping’ techniques, other than those specified in 5A001.b.4. and having any of the
following
a. User programmable spreading codes; or
b. A total transmitted bandwidth which is 100 or more times the bandwidth of any
one information channel and in excess of 50 kHz;
Note: 5A001.b.3.b. does not control radio equipment specially designed for use with
civil cellular radio-communications systems.
Note: 5A001.b.3 does not control equipment designed to operate at an output power
of 1 W or less.
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4. Being radio equipment employing ultra-wideband modulation techniques, having user
programmable channelising codes, scrambling codes or network identification codes
and having any of the following
a. A bandwidth exceeding 500 MHz; or
b. A ‘fractional bandwidth’ of 20 % or more;
5. Being digitally controlled radio receivers having all of the following
a. More than 1,000 channels;
b. A ‘frequency switching time’ of less than 1 ms;
c. Automatic searching or scanning of a part of the electromagnetic spectrum; and
d. Identification of the received signals or the type of transmitter; or
Note: 5A001.b.5. does not control radio equipment specially designed for use with civil
cellular radio-communications systems.
6. Employing functions of digital ‘signal processing’ to provide ‘voice coding’ output at
rates of less than 2,400 bit/s
Technical Notes
1. For variable rate ‘voice coding’, 5A001.b.6. applies to the ‘voice coding’ output of
continuous speech.
2. For the purposes of 5A001.b.6., ‘voice coding’ is defined as the technique to take
samples of human voice and then convert these samples into a digital signal, taking
into account specific characteristics of human speech.
c. Optical fibre communication cables, optical fibres and accessories, as follows
1. Optical fibres of more than 500 m in length, and specified by the manufacturer as
being capable of withstanding a ‘proof test’ tensile stress of 2 x 10 9 N/m 2 or more;
Technical Note
‘Proof Test’: on-line or off-line production screen testing that dynamically applies a
prescribed tensile stress over a 0,5 to 3 m length of fibre at a running rate of 2 to 5 m/
s while passing between capstans approximately 150 mm in diameter. The ambient
temperature is a nominal 293 K (20 °C) and relative humidity 40 %. Equivalent national
standards may be used for executing the proof test.
2. Optical fibre cables and accessories, designed for underwater use;
Note: 5A001.c.2. does not control standard civil telecommunication cables and
accessories.
N.B. 1: For underwater umbilical cables, and connectors therefor, see 8A002.a.3.
N.B. 2: For fibre-optic hull penetrators or connectors, see 8A002.c.
d. ‘Electronically steerable phased array antennae’ operating above 31,8 GHz;
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Note: 5A001.d. does not control ‘electronically steerable phased array antennae’ for
landing systems with instruments meeting ICAO standards covering Microwave
Landing Systems (MLS).
e. Radio direction finding equipment operating at frequencies above 30 MHz and having all
of the following, and specially designed components therefor
1. ‘Instantaneous bandwidth’ of 10 MHz or more; and
2. Capable of finding a Line Of Bearing (LOB) to non-cooperating radio transmitters with
a signal duration of less than 1 ms;
f. Jamming equipment specially designed or modified to intentionally and selectively
interfere with, deny, inhibit, degrade or seduce mobile telecommunications services and
perform any of the following, and specially designed components therefore
1. Simulate the functions of Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment;
2. Detect and exploit specific characteristics of the mobile telecommunications protocol
employed (e.g., GSM); or
3. Exploit specific characteristics of the mobile telecommunications protocol employed
(e.g., GSM);
N.B.: For GNSS jamming equipment see Military Goods Controls.
g. Passive Coherent Location (PCL) systems or equipment, specially designed for detecting
and tracking moving objects by measuring reflections of ambient radio frequency
emissions, supplied by non-radar transmitters
Technical Note
Non-radar transmitters may include commercial radio, television or cellular telecommuni
cations base stations.
Note: 5A001.g. does not control any of the following
a. Radio-astronomical equipment; or
b. Systems or equipment, that require any radio transmission from the target.
h. Electronic equipment designed or modified to prematurely activate or prevent the
initiation of Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIED)
N.B.: SEE ALSO MILITARY GOODS CONTROLS.
‘Information security’ systems, equipment and components therefor, as follows
a. Systems, equipment, application specific ‘electronic assemblies’, modules and integrated
circuits for ‘information security’, as follows and other specially designed components
therefor
N.B.: For the control of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receiving equipment
containing or employing decryption (i.e., GPS or GLONASS), see 7A005.
1. Designed or modified to use ‘cryptography’ employing digital techniques performing
any cryptographic function other than authentication or digital signature and having
any of the following
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Technical Notes
1. Authentication and digital signature functions include their associated key
management function.
2. Authentication includes all aspects of access control where there is no encryption of
files or text except as directly related to the protection of passwords, Personal
Identification Numbers (PINs) or similar data to prevent unauthorised access.
3. ‘Cryptography’ does not include ‘fixed’ data compression or coding techniques.
Note: 5A002.a.1. includes equipment designed or modified to use ‘cryptography’
employing analogue principles when implemented with digital techniques.
a. A ‘symmetric algorithm’ employing a key length in excess of 56 bits; or
b. An ‘asymmetric algorithm’ where the security of the algorithm is based on
any of the following
1. Factorisation of integers in excess of 512 bits (e.g., RSA);
2. Computation of discrete logarithms in a multiplicative group of a finite
field of size greater than 512 bits (e.g., Diffie-Hellman over Z/pZ); or
3. Discrete logarithms in a group other than mentioned in 5A002.a.1.b.2. in
excess of 112 bits (e.g., Diffie-Hellman over an elliptic curve);
2. Designed or modified to perform cryptanalytic functions;
3. Not used;
4. Specially designed or modified to reduce the compromising emanations of information-
bearing signals beyond what is necessary for health, safety or electromagnetic inter
ference standards;
5. Designed or modified to use cryptographic techniques to generate the spreading code
for ‘spread spectrum’ systems, other than those specified in 5A002.a.6., including the
hopping code for ‘frequency hopping’ systems;
6. Designed or modified to use cryptographic techniques to generate channelising codes,
scrambling codes or network identification codes, for systems using ultra-wideband
modulation techniques and having any of the following
a. A bandwidth exceeding 500 MHz; or
b. A ‘fractional bandwidth’ of 20 % or more;
7. Non-cryptographic information and communications technology (ICT) security systems
and devices evaluated to an assurance level exceeding class EAL-6 (evaluation assurance
level) of the Common Criteria (CC) or equivalent;
8. Communications cable systems designed or modified using mechanical, electrical or
electronic means to detect surreptitious intrusion;
9. Designed or modified to use ‘quantum cryptography’.
Technical Note
‘Quantum cryptography’ is also known as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).
Note: 5A002 does not control any of the following
a. ‘Personalised smart cards’ having any of the following
1. Where the cryptographic capability is restricted for use in equipment or
systems excluded from control under entries b. to g. of this Note; or
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2. For general public-use applications where the cryptographic capability is not user-
accessible and it is specially designed and limited to allow protection of personal
data stored within;
N.B. If a ‘personalised smart card’ has multiple functions, the control status of each
function is assessed individually.
b. Receiving equipment for radio broadcast, pay television or similar restricted audience
broadcast of the consumer type, without digital encryption except that exclusively
used for sending the billing or programme-related information back to the broadcast
providers;
c. Equipment where the cryptographic capability is not user-accessible and which is
specially designed and limited to allow any of the following
1. Execution of copy-protected ‘software’;
2. Access to any of the following
a. Copy-protected contents stored on read-only media; or
b. Information stored in encrypted form on media (e.g., in connection with the
protection of intellectual property rights) when the media is offered for sale in
identical sets to the public;
3. Copying control of copyright protected audio/video data; or
4. Encryption and/or decryption for protection of libraries, design attributes, or
associated data for the design of semiconductor devices or integrated circuits;
d. Cryptographic equipment specially designed and limited for banking use or ‘money
transactions’;
Technical Note
‘Money transactions’ in 5A002 Note d. includes the collection and settlement of fares
or credit functions.
e. Portable or mobile radiotelephones for civil use (e.g., for use with commercial civil
cellular radio communication systems) that are not capable of transmitting encrypted
data directly to another radiotelephone or equipment (other than Radio Access
Network (RAN) equipment), nor of passing encrypted data through RAN
equipment (e.g., Radio Network Controller (RNC) or Base Station Controller (BSC));
f. Cordless telephone equipment not capable of end-to-end encryption where the
maximum effective range of unboosted cordless operation (i.e. a single, unrelayed
hop between terminal and home base station) is less than 400 metres according to
the manufacturer's specifications; or
g. Portable or mobile radiotelephones and similar client wireless devices for civil use,
that implement only published or commercial cryptographic standards (except for
anti-piracy functions, which may be non-published) and also meet the provisions of
paragraphs b. to d. of the Cryptography Note (Note 3 in Category 5 - Part 2), that
have been customised for a specific civil industry application with features that do
not affect the cryptographic functionality of these original non-customised devices;
h. Equipment specially designed for the servicing of portable or mobile radiotelephones
and similar client wireless devices that meet all the provisions of the Cryptography
Note (Note 3 in Category 5, Part 2), where the servicing equipment meets all of the
following
1. The cryptographic functionality of the servicing equipment cannot easily be
changed by the user of the equipment;
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2. The servicing equipment is designed for installation without further substantial
support by the supplier; and
3. The servicing equipment cannot change the cryptographic functionality of the
device being serviced;
i. Wireless ‘personal area network’ equipment that implement only published or
commercial cryptographic standards and where the cryptographic capability is
limited to a nominal operating range not exceeding 30 metres according to the
manufacturer's specifications.
Telecommunications test, inspection and production equipment, components and accessories,
as follows
a. Equipment and specially designed components or accessories therefor, specially designed
for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of equipment, functions or features, specified in
5A001;
Note: 5B001.a. does not control optical fibre characterization equipment.
b. Equipment and specially designed components or accessories therefor, specially designed
for the ‘development’ of any of the following telecommunication transmission or
switching equipment
1. Equipment employing digital techniques designed to operate at a ‘total digital transfer
rate’ exceeding 15 Gbit/s;
Technical Note
For switching equipment the ‘total digital transfer rate’ is measured at the highest speed
port or line.
2. Equipment employing a ‘laser’ and having any of the following
a. A transmission wavelength exceeding 1 750 nm;
b. Performing ‘optical amplification’ using praseodymium-doped fluoride fibre
amplifiers (PDFFA);
c. Employing coherent optical transmission or coherent optical detection techniques
(also called optical heterodyne or homodyne techniques); or
d. Employing analogue techniques and having a bandwidth exceeding 2,5 GHz;
Note: 5B001.b.2.d. does not control equipment specially designed for the ‘development’
of commercial TV systems.
3. Equipment employing ‘optical switching’;
4. Radio equipment employing Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation (QAM) techniques
above level 256; or
5. Equipment employing ‘common channel signalling’ operating in non-associated mode
of operation.
‘Information security’ test, inspection and ‘production’ equipment, as follows
a. Equipment specially designed for the ‘development’ or ‘production’ of equipment specified
in 5A002 or 5B002.b.;
b. Measuring equipment specially designed to evaluate and validate the ‘information security’
functions of the equipment specified in 5A002 or ‘software’ specified in 5D002.a. or
5D002.c.
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‘Software’ as follows
a. ‘Software’ specially designed or modified for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of
equipment, functions or features, specified in 5A001;
b. ‘Software’ specially designed or modified to support ‘technology’ specified in 5E001;
c. Specific ‘software’ specially designed or modified to provide characteristics, functions or
features of equipment, specified in 5A001 or 5B001;
d. ‘Software’ specially designed or modified for the ‘development’ of any of the following
telecommunication transmission or switching equipment
1. Equipment employing digital techniques designed to operate at a ‘total digital transfer
rate’ exceeding 15 Gbit/s;
Technical Note
For switching equipment the ‘total digital transfer rate’ is measured at the highest speed
port or line.
2. Equipment employing a ‘laser’ and having any of the following
a. A transmission wavelength exceeding 1,750 nm; or
b. Employing analogue techniques and having a bandwidth exceeding 2.5 GHz;
Note: 5D001.d.2.b. does not control ‘software’ specially designed or modified for the
‘development’ of commercial TV systems.
3. Equipment employing ‘optical switching’; or
4. Radio equipment employing Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation (QAM) techniques
above level 256.
‘Software’ as follows
a. ‘Software’ specially designed or modified for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of
equipment specified in 5A002 or ‘software’ specified in 5D002.c.;
b. ‘Software’ specially designed or modified to support ‘technology’ specified in 5E002;
c. Specific ‘software’, as follows
1. ‘Software’ having the characteristics, or performing or simulating the functions of the
equipment, specified in 5A002;
2. ‘Software’ to certify ‘software’ specified in 5D002.c.1.
Note: 5D002 does not control ‘software’ as follows
a. ‘Software’ required for the ‘use’ of equipment excluded from control by the Note
to 5A002;
b. ‘Software’ providing any of the functions of equipment excluded from control by
the Note to 5A002.
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‘Technology’ as follows
a. ‘Technology’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘development’, ‘production’
or ‘use’ (excluding operation) of equipment, functions or features specified in 5A001 or
‘software’ specified in 5D001.a.;
b. Specific ‘technology’ as follows
1. ‘Required’ ‘technology’ for the ‘development’ or ‘production’ of telecommunications
equipment specially designed to be used on board satellites;
2. ‘Technology’ for the ‘development’ or ‘use’ of ‘laser’ communication techniques with the
capability of automatically acquiring and tracking signals and maintaining communi
cations through exoatmosphere or sub-surface (water) media;
3. ‘Technology’ for the ‘development’ of digital cellular radio base station receiving
equipment whose reception capabilities that allow multi-band, multi-channel, multi-
mode, multi-coding algorithm or multi-protocol operation can be modified by changes
in ‘software’;
4. ‘Technology’ for the ‘development’ of ‘spread spectrum’ techniques, including ‘frequency
hopping’ techniques;
c. ‘Technology’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘development’ or
‘production’ of any of the following
1. Equipment employing digital techniques designed to operate at a ‘total digital transfer
rate’ exceeding 15 Gbit/s;
Technical Note
For switching equipment the ‘total digital transfer rate’ is measured at the highest speed
port or line.
2. Equipment employing a ‘laser’ and having any of the following
a. A transmission wavelength exceeding 1,750 nm;
b. Performing ‘optical amplification’ using Praseodymium-Doped Fluoride Fibre
Amplifiers (PDFFA);
c. Employing coherent optical transmission or coherent optical detection techniques
(also called optical heterodyne or homodyne techniques);
d. Employing wavelength division multiplexing techniques of optical carriers at less
than 100 GHz spacing; or
e. Employing analogue techniques and having a bandwidth exceeding 2,5 GHz;
Note: 5E001.c.2.e. does not control ‘technology’ for the ‘development’ or
‘production’ of commercial TV systems.
N.B.: For ‘technology’ for the ‘development’ or ‘production’ of non-telecommuni
cations equipment employing a laser, see 6E.
3. Equipment employing ‘optical switching’;
4. Radio equipment having any of the following
a. Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation (QAM) techniques above level 256;
b. Operating at input or output frequencies exceeding 31,8 GHz; or
Note: 5E001.c.4.b. does not control ‘technology’ for the ‘development’ or
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‘production’ of equipment designed or modified for operation in any frequency band
which is ‘allocated by the ITU’ for radio-communications services, but not for radio-
determination.
c. Operating in the 1,5 MHz to 87,5 MHz band and incorporating adaptive techniques
providing more than 15 dB suppression of an interfering signal;
5. Equipment employing ‘common channel signalling’ operating in non-associated mode
of operation; or
6. Mobile equipment having all of the following
a. Operating at an optical wavelength greater than or equal to 200 nm and less than
or equal to 400 nm; and
b. Operating as a ‘local area network’;
d. ‘Technology’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘development’ or
‘production’ of Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit (MMIC) power amplifiers
specially designed for telecommunications and having any of the following
1. Rated for operation at frequencies exceeding 3,2 GHz up to and including 6 GHz and
with an average output power greater than 4 W (36 dBm) with a ‘fractional bandwidth’
greater than 15 %;
2. Rated for operation at frequencies exceeding 6 GHz up to and including 16 GHz and
with an average output power greater than 1 W (30 dBm) with a ‘fractional bandwidth’
greater than 10 %;
3. Rated for operation at frequencies exceeding 16 GHz up to and including 31,8 GHz
and with an average output power greater than 0,8 W (29 dBm) with a ‘fractional
bandwidth’ greater than 10 %;
4. Rated for operation at frequencies exceeding 31,8 GHz up to and including 37,5 GHz;
5. Rated for operation at frequencies exceeding 37,5 GHz up to and including 43,5 GHz
and with an average output power greater than 0,25 W (24 dBm) with a ‘fractional
bandwidth’ greater than 10 %; or
6. Rated for operation at frequencies exceeding 43,5 GHz;
e. ‘Technology’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘development’ or
‘production’ of electronic devices and circuits, specially designed for telecommunications
and containing components manufactured from ‘superconductive’ materials, specially
designed for operation at temperatures below the ‘critical temperature’ of at least one
of the ‘superconductive’ constituents and having any of the following
1. Current switching for digital circuits using ‘superconductive’ gates with a product of
delay time per gate (in seconds) and power dissipation per gate (in watts) of less than
10 -14 J; or
2. Frequency selection at all frequencies using resonant circuits with Q-values exceeding
10,000.
‘Technology’ according to the General Technology Note for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or
‘use’ of equipment specified in 5A002, 5B002 or ‘software’ specified in 5D002.a. or 5D002.c.
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‘Nuclear reactors’ and specially designed or prepared equipment and components therefor, as
follows
a. ‘Nuclear reactors’;
b. Metal vessels, or major shop-fabricated parts therefor, including the reactor vessel head for
a reactor pressure vessel, specially designed or prepared to contain the core of a ‘nuclear
reactor’;
c. Manipulative equipment specially designed or prepared for inserting or removing fuel in a
‘nuclear reactor’;
d. Control rods specially designed or prepared for the control of the fission process in a
‘nuclear reactor’, support or suspension structures therefor, rod drive mechanisms and rod
guide tubes;
e. Pressure tubes specially designed or prepared to contain fuel elements and the primary
coolant in a ‘nuclear reactor’ at an operating pressure in excess of 5,1 MPa;
f. Zirconium metal and alloys in the form of tubes or assemblies of tubes in which the ratio
of hafnium to zirconium is less than 1:500 parts by weight, specially designed or prepared
for use in a ‘nuclear reactor’;
g. Coolant pumps specially designed or prepared for circulating the primary coolant of
‘nuclear reactors’;
h. ‘Nuclear reactor internals’ specially designed or prepared for use in a ‘nuclear reactor’,
including support columns for the core, fuel channels, thermal shields, baffles, core grid
plates, and diffuser plates;
Note: In 0A001.h. ‘nuclear reactor internals’ means any major structure within a reactor
vessel which has one or more functions such as supporting the core, maintaining
fuel alignment, directing primary coolant flow, providing radiation shields for the
reactor vessel, and guiding in-core instrumentation.
i. Heat exchangers (steam generators) specially designed or prepared for use in the primary
coolant circuit of a ‘nuclear reactor’;
j. Neutron detection and measuring instruments specially designed or prepared for deter
mining neutron flux levels within the core of a ‘nuclear reactor’.
Low enriched uranium covered by 0C002 when it is incorporated in assembled nuclear fuels
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ANNEX II
Goods and technology referred to in point (a) of Article 2(1), Articles 2(3) and 4, and points (b) and (d) of
Article 5(1)
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
1. Unless otherwise stated, reference numbers used in the column entitled ‘Description’ refer to the descriptions of dual-
use items and technology set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
2. A reference number in the column entitled ‘Related item from Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009’ means that
the characteristics of the item described in the column ‘Description’ lie outside the parameters set out in the
description of the dual-use entry referred to.
3. Definitions of terms between ‘single quotation marks’ are given in a technical note to the relevant item.
4. Definitions of terms between “double quotation marks” can be found in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
GENERAL NOTES
1. The object of the prohibitions contained in this Annex should not be defeated by the export of any non-prohibited
goods (including plant) containing one or more prohibited components when the prohibited component or
components are the principal element of the goods and can feasibly be removed or used for other purposes.
N.B.: In judging whether the prohibited component or components are to be considered the principal element, it is
necessary to weigh the factors of quantity, value and technological know-how involved and other special
circumstances which might establish the prohibited component or components as the principal element of
the goods being procured.
2. The goods specified in this Annex include both new and used goods.
GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NOTE (GTN)
(To be read in conjunction with Section II.B.)
1. The sale, supply, transfer or export of ‘technology’ which is ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of
goods the sale, supply, transfer or export of which is prohibited in Part A (Goods) below, is prohibited in accordance
with the provisions of Section II.B.
2. The ‘technology’ ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of prohibited goods remains under prohibition
even when applicable to non-prohibited goods.
3. Prohibitions do not apply to that ‘technology’ which is the minimum necessary for the installation, operation, main
tenance (checking) and repair of those goods which are not prohibited or the export of which has been authorised in
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 or this Regulation.
4. Prohibitions on ‘technology’ transfer do not apply to information ‘in the public domain’, to ‘basic scientific research’ or
to the minimum necessary information for patent applications.
II.A. GOODS
A0. Nuclear Materials, Facilities, and Equipment
Related item from Annex I
No
Description
to Regulation (EC)
No 428/2009
II.A0.001
Hollow cathode lamps as follows
—
a. Iodine hollow cathode lamps with windows in pure silicon or quartz
b. Uranium hollow cathode lamps
II.A0.002
Faraday isolators in the wavelength range 500 nm – 650 nm
—
II.A0.003
Optical gratings in the wavelength range 500 nm – 650 nm
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Optical fibres in the wavelength range 500 nm – 650 nm coated with anti-
reflecting layers in the wavelength range 500 nm – 650 nm and having a
core diameter greater than 0,4 mm but not exceeding 2 mm
Nuclear reactor vessel components and testing equipment, other than those
specified in 0A001, as follows
1. Seals
2. Internal components
3. Sealing, testing and measurement equipment
Nuclear detection systems for detection, identification or quantification of
radioactive materials and radiation of nuclear origin and specially designed
components thereof other than those specified in 0A001.j. or 1A004.c.
Bellows-sealed valves made of aluminium alloy or stainless steel type 304,
304L or 316L.
Note: This item does not cover bellow valves defined in 0B001.c.6 and
2A226.
Laser mirrors, other than those specified in 6A005.e, consisting of substrates
having a thermal expansion coefficient of 10- 6 K- 1 or less at 20 °C (e.g.
fused silica or sapphire).
Note: This item does not cover optical systems specially designed for astro
nomical applications, except if the mirrors contain fused silica.
Laser lenses, other than those specified in 6A005.e.2, consisting of
substrates having a thermal expansion coefficient of 10- 6 K- 1 or less at
20 °C (e.g. fused silica).
Pipes, piping, flanges, fittings made of, or lined with, nickel or nickel alloy
containing more than 40 % nickel by weight, other than those specified in
2B350.h.1., in respect of pipes having an inner diameter smaller than
100 mm.
Shielded enclosures for the manipulation, storage and handling of radio
active substances (Hot cells).
‘Natural uranium’ or ‘depleted uranium’ or thorium in the form of metal,
alloy, chemical compound or concentrate and any other material containing
one or more of the foregoing, other than those specified in 0C001.
Detonation chambers having a capacity of explosion absorption of more
than 2,5 kg TNT equivalent.
A1. Materials, chemicals, ‘microorganisms’ and ‘toxins’
Description
Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid (HDEHP or D2HPA) CAS 298-07-7
solvent in any quantity, with a purity greater than 90 %.
Fluorine gas (Chemical Abstract Number (CAS): 7782-41-4), with a purity of
at least 95 %.
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Electrolytic cells for fluorine production with an output capacity greater than
100 g of fluorine per hour.
Note: This item does not cover electrolytic cells defined in item 1B225.
Catalysts, other than those prohibited by 1A225, containing platinum,
palladium or rhodium, usable for promoting the hydrogen isotope
exchange reaction between hydrogen and water for the recovery of
tritium from heavy water or for the production of heavy water.
Aluminium and its alloys, other than those specified in 1C002.b.4 or
1C202.a, in crude or semi-fabricated form having either of the following
characteristics
a. Capable of an ultimate tensile strength of 460 MPa or more at 293 K
(20 °C); or
b. Having a tensile strength of 415 MPa or more at 298 K (25 °C).
Magnetic metals, of all types and of whatever form, having an initial relative
permeability of 120 000 or more and a thickness between 0,05 and
0,1 mm.
‘Fibrous or filamentary materials’ or prepregs, as follows
a. Carbon or aramid ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’ having either of the
following characteristics
1. A ‘specific modulus’ exceeding 10 × 10 6 m; or
2. A ‘specific tensile strength’ exceeding 17 × 10 4 m;
b. Glass ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’ having either of the following
characteristics
1. A ‘specific modulus’ exceeding 3,18 × 10 6 m; or
2. A ‘specific tensile strength’ exceeding 76,2 × 10 3 m;
c. Thermoset resin-impregnated continuous ‘yarns’, ‘rovings’, ‘tows’ or ‘tapes’
with a width of 15 mm or less (once prepregs), made from carbon or
glass ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’ other than those specified in
II.A1.010.a. or b.
Note: This item does not cover ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’ defined in
items 1C010.a, 1C010.b, 1C210.a and 1C210.b.
Resin-impregnated or pitch-impregnated fibres (prepregs), metal or carbon
coated fibres (preforms) or ‘carbon fibre preforms’, as follows
a. Made from ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’ specified in II.A1.009 above;
b. Epoxy resin ‘matrix’ impregnated carbon ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’
(prepregs), specified in 1C010.a, 1C010.b or 1C010.c, for the repair of
aircraft structures or laminates, of which the size of individual sheets
does not exceed 50 cm × 90 cm;
c. Prepregs specified in 1C010.a, 1C010.b or 1C010.c, when impregnated
with phenolic or epoxy resins having a glass transition temperature (Tg)
less than 433 K (160 °C) and a cure temperature lower than the glass
transition temperature.
Note: This item does not cover ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’ defined in
item 1C010.e.
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Reinforced silicon carbide ceramic composites usable for nose tips, re-entry
vehicles, nozzle flaps, usable in ‘missiles’, other than those specified in
1C107.
Maraging steels, other than those specified in 1C116 or 1C216, ‘capable of’
an ultimate tensile strength of 2050 MPa or more, at 293 K (20 °C).
Technical Note
The phrase ‘maraging steel capable of’ encompasses maraging steel before or
after heat treatment.
Tungsten, tantalum, tungsten carbide, tantalum carbide and alloys, having
both of the following characteristics
a. In forms having a hollow cylindrical or spherical symmetry (including
cylinder segments) with an inside diameter between 50 mm and
300 mm; and
b. A mass greater than 5 kg.
Note: This item does not cover tungsten, tungsten carbide and alloys defined
in item 1C226.
Elemental powders of cobalt, neodymium or samarium or alloys or mixtures
thereof containing at least 20 % by weight of cobalt, neodymium or
samarium, with a particle size less than 200 μm.
Pure tributyl phosphate (TBP) [CAS No 126-73-8] or any mixture having a
TBP content of more than 5 % by weight.
Maraging steel, other than those prohibited by 1C116, 1C216 or II.A1.012
Technical Note
Maraging steels are iron alloys generally characterised by high nickel, very
low carbon content and the use of substitutional elements or precipitates to
produce strengthening and age-hardening of the alloy.
Metals, metal powders and material as follows
a. Tungsten and tungsten alloys, other than those prohibited by 1C117, in
the form of uniform spherical or atomized particles of 500 μm diameter
or less with a tungsten content of 97 % by weight or more;
b. Molybdenum and molybdenum alloys, other than those prohibited by
1C117, in the form of uniform spherical or atomized particles of
500 μm diameter or less with a molybdenum content of 97 % by
weight or more;
c. Tungsten materials in the solid form, other than those prohibited by
1C226, or II.A1.013 having material compositions as follows
1. Tungsten and alloys containing 97 % by weight or more of tungsten;
2. Copper infiltrated tungsten containing 80 % by weight or more of
tungsten; or
3. Silver infiltrated tungsten containing 80 % by weight or more of
tungsten.
Soft magnetic alloys having a chemical composition as follows
a) Iron content between 30 % and 60 %, and
b) Cobalt content between 40 % and 60 %.
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‘Fibrous or filamentary materials’ or prepregs, not prohibited by Annex I or
by Annex II (under II.A1.009, II.A1.010) of this Regulation, or not specified
by Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 428/2009, as follows
a) Carbon ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’;
Note: II.A1.019a. does not cover fabrics.
b) Thermoset resin-impregnated continuous ‘yarns’, ‘rovings’, ‘tows’, or
‘tapes’, made from carbon ‘fibrous or filamentary materials’;
c) Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) continuous ‘yarns’, ‘rovings’, ‘tows’ or ‘tapes’
A2. Materials Processing
Description
Vibration test systems, equipment and components thereof, other than those
specified in 2B116
a. Vibration test systems employing feedback or closed loop techniques and
incorporating a digital controller, capable of vibrating a system at an
acceleration equal to or greater than 0,1 g rms between 0,1 Hz and
2 kHz and imparting forces equal to or greater than 50 kN, measured
‘bare table’;
b. Digital controllers, combined with specially designed vibration test
‘software’, with a real-time bandwidth greater than 5 kHz designed for
use with vibration test systems specified in a.;
c. Vibration thrusters (shaker units), with or without associated amplifiers,
capable of imparting a force equal to or greater than 50 kN, measured
‘bare table’, and usable in vibration test systems specified in a.;
d. Test piece support structures and electronic units designed to combine
multiple shaker units in a system capable of providing an effective
combined force equal to or greater than 50 kN, measured ‘bare table’,
and usable in vibration systems specified in a.
Technical Note
‘Bare table’ means a flat table, or surface, with no fixture or fittings.
Machine tools and components and numerical controls for machine tools, as
follows
a. Machine tools for grinding having positioning accuracies with ‘all
compensations available’ equal to or less (better) than 15 μm according
to ISO 230/2 (1988) (1) or national equivalents along any linear axis;
Note: This item does not cover machine tools for grinding defined in
items 2B201.b and 2B001.c.
b. Components and numerical controls, specially designed for machine tools
specified in 2B001, 2B201, or under a.
Balancing machines and related equipment as follows
a. Balancing machines, designed or modified for dental or other medical
equipment, having all the following characteristics
1. Not capable of balancing rotors/assemblies having a mass greater than
3 kg;
2. Capable of balancing rotors/assemblies at speeds greater than
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3. Capable of correcting imbalance in two planes or more; and
4. Capable of balancing to a residual specific imbalance of 0,2 g × mm
per kg of rotor mass;
b. Indicator heads designed or modified for use with machines specified in a.
above.
Technical Note
Indicator heads are sometimes known as balancing instrumentation.
Remote manipulators that can be used to provide remote actions in radio
chemical separation operations or hot cells, other than those specified in
2B225, having either of the following characteristics
a. A capability of penetrating a hot cell wall of 0,3 m or more (through the
wall operation); or
b. A capability of bridging over the top of a hot cell wall with a thickness
of 0,3 m or more (over the wall operation).
Oxidation furnaces capable of operation at temperatures above 400 °C
Note: This item does not cover tunnel kilns with roller or car conveyance,
tunnel kilns with conveyor belt, pusher type kilns or shuttle kilns,
specially designed for the production of glass, tableware ceramics or
structural ceramics.
‘Pressure transducers’, other than those defined in 2B230, capable of
measuring absolute pressures at any point in the range 0 to 200 kPa and
having both of the following characteristics
a. Pressure sensing elements made of or protected by ‘Materials resistant to
corrosion by uranium hexafluoride (UF 6 )’, and
b. Having either of the following characteristics
1. A full scale of less than 200 kPa and an ‘accuracy’ of better than ± 1 %
of full scale; or
2. A full scale of 200 kPa or greater and an ‘accuracy’ of better than
2 kPa.
Centrifugal separators, capable of continuous separation without the propa
gation of aerosols and manufactured from
1. Alloys with more than 25 % nickel and 20 % chromium by weight;
2. Fluoropolymers;
3. Glass (including vitrified or enamelled coating or glass lining);
4. Nickel or alloys with more than 40 % nickel by weight;
5. Tantalum or tantalum alloys;
6. Titanium or titanium alloys; or
7. Zirconium or zirconium alloys.
Note: This item does not cover centrifugal separators defined in item
2B352.c.
Sintered metal filters made of nickel or nickel alloy with more than 40 %
nickel by weight.
Note: This item does not cover filters defined in item 2B352.d.
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Spin-forming machines and flow-forming machines, other than those
controlled by 2B009, 2B109 or 2B209, having a roller force of more
than 60 kN and specially designed components therefor.
Technical Note
For the purpose of II.A2.013, machines combining the functions of spin-
forming and flow-forming are regarded as flow-forming machines.
A3. Electronics
Description
High voltage direct current power supplies having both of the following
characteristics
a. Capable of continuously producing, over a time period of eight hours,
10 kV or more, with output power of 5 kW or more with or without
sweeping; and
b. Current or voltage stability better than 0,1 % over a time period of four
hours.
Note: This item does not cover power supplies defined in items 0B001.j.5
and 3A227.
Mass spectrometers, other than those specified in 3A233 or 0B002.g,
capable of measuring ions of 200 atomic mass units or more and having
a resolution of better than 2 parts in 200, as follows, and ion sources
thereof
a. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP/MS);
b. Glow discharge mass spectrometers (GDMS);
c. Thermal ionisation mass spectrometers (TIMS);
d. Electron bombardment mass spectrometers which have a source chamber
constructed from, lined with or plated with ‘materials resistant to
corrosion by uranium hexafluoride UF 6 ’;
e. Molecular beam mass spectrometers having either of the following char
acteristics
1. A source chamber constructed from, lined with or plated with
stainless steel or molybdenum and equipped with a cold trap
capable of cooling to 193 K (– 80 °C) or less; or
2. A source chamber constructed from, lined with or plated with
‘materials resistant to corrosion by uranium hexafluoride (UF 6 )’;
f. Mass spectrometers equipped with a microfluorination ion source
designed for actinides or actinide fluorides.
Frequency changers or generators, other than those prohibited by 0B001 or
3A225, having all of the following characteristics, and specially designed
components and software therefor
a. Multiphase output capable of providing a power of 40 W or greater;
b. Capable of operating in the frequency range between 600 and 2 000 Hz;
and
c. Frequency control better (less) than 0,1 %.
Technical Note
Frequency changers in II.A3.003 are also known as converters or inverters.
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Yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG) rods
Optical equipment and components, other than those specified in 6A002,
6A004.b as follows
Infrared optics in the wavelength range 9 000 nm – 17 000 nm and
components thereof, including cadmium telluride (CdTe) components.
Wave front corrector systems for use with a laser beam having a diameter
exceeding 4 mm, and specially designed components thereof, including
control systems, phase front sensors and ‘deformable mirrors’ including
bimorph mirrors.
Note: This item does not cover mirrors defined in 6A004.a, 6A005.e and
6A005.f.
Argon ion ‘lasers’ having an average output power equal to or greater than
5 W.
Note: This item does not cover argon ion ‘lasers’ defined in items 0B001.g.5,
6A005 and 6A205.a.
Semiconductor ‘lasers’ and components thereof, as follows
a. Individual semiconductor ‘lasers’ with an output power greater than
200 mW each, in quantities larger than 100;
b. Semiconductor ‘laser’ arrays having an output power greater than 20 W.
Notes
1. Semiconductor ‘lasers’ are commonly called ‘laser’ diodes.
2. This item does not cover ‘lasers’ defined in items 0B001.g.5, 0B001.h.6
and 6A005.b.
3. This item does not cover ‘laser’ diodes with a wavelength in the range
1 200 nm – 2 000 nm.
Tunable semiconductor ‘lasers’ and tunable semiconductor ‘laser’ arrays, of a
wavelength between 9 μm and 17 μm, as well as array stacks of semicon
ductor ‘lasers’ containing at least one tunable semiconductor ‘laser’ array of
such wavelength.
Notes
1. Semiconductor ‘lasers’ are commonly called ‘laser’ diodes.
2. This item does not cover semiconductor ‘lasers’ defined in items
0B001.h.6 and 6A005.b
Solid state ‘tunable’ ‘lasers’ and specially designed components thereof as
follows
a. Titanium-sapphire lasers,
b. Alexandrite lasers.
Note: This item does not cover titanium-sapphire and alexandrite lasers
defined in items 0B001.g.5, 0B001.h.6 and 6A005.c.1.
Neodymium-doped (other than glass) ‘lasers’, having an output wavelength
greater than 1 000 nm but not exceeding 1 100 nm and output energy
exceeding 10 J per pulse.
Note: This item does not cover neodymium-doped (other than glass) ‘lasers’
defined in item 6A005.c.2.b.
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Components of acousto-optics, as follows
a. Framing tubes and solid-state imaging devices having a recurrence
frequency equal to or exceeding 1 kHz;
b. Recurrence frequency supplies;
c. Pockels cells.
Radiation-hardened cameras, or lenses thereof, other than those specified in
6A203.c., specially designed, or rated as radiation-hardened, to withstand a
total radiation dose greater than 50 × 10 3 Gy(silicon) (5 × 10 6 rad (silicon))
without operational degradation.
Technical Note
The term Gy(silicon) refers to the energy in Joules per kilogram absorbed by
an unshielded silicon sample when exposed to ionising radiation.
Tunable pulsed dye laser amplifiers and oscillators, having all of the
following characteristics
1. Operating at wavelengths between 300 nm and 800 nm;
2. An average output power greater than 10 W but not exceeding 30 W;
3. A repetition rate greater than 1 kHz; and
4. Pulse width less than 100 ns.
Notes
1. This item does not cover single mode oscillators.
2. This item does not cover tunable pulsed dye laser amplifiers and
oscillators defined in item 6A205.c, 0B001.g.5 and 6A005.
Pulsed carbon dioxide ‘lasers’ having all of the following characteristics
1. Operating at wavelengths between 9 000 nm and 11 000 nm;
2. A repetition rate greater than 250 Hz;
3. An average output power greater than 100 W but not exceeding 500 W;
and
4. Pulse width less than 200 ns.
Note: This item does not cover pulsed carbon dioxide laser amplifiers and
oscillators defined in item 6A205.d., 0B001.h.6. and 6A005.d.
A7. Navigation and Avionics
3Related item from Annex I
Description
Inertial navigation systems and specially designed components thereof, as
follows
I. Inertial navigation systems which are certified for use on ‘civil aircraft’ by
civil authorities of a State participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement,
and specially designed components thereof, as follows
a. Inertial navigation systems (INS) (gimballed or strapdown) and
inertial equipment designed for ‘aircraft’, land vehicle, vessels
(surface or underwater) or ‘spacecraft’ for attitude, guidance or
control, having any of the following characteristics, and specially
designed components thereof
1. Navigation error (free inertial) subsequent to normal alignment of
0,8 nautical mile per hour (nm/hr) ‘Circular Error Probable’ (CEP)
or less (better); or
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2. Specified to function at linear acceleration levels exceeding 10 g;
b. Hybrid Inertial Navigation Systems embedded with Global Navigation
Satellite Systems(s) (GNSS) or with ‘Data-Based Referenced Navi
gation’ (‘DBRN’) System(s) for attitude, guidance or control,
subsequent to normal alignment, having an INS navigation position
accuracy, after loss of GNSS or ‘DBRN’ for a period of up to four
minutes, of less (better) than 10 metres ‘Circular Error Probable’
(CEP);
c. Inertial Equipment for Azimuth, Heading, or North Pointing having
any of the following characteristics, and specially designed
components thereof
1. Designed to have an Azimuth, Heading, or North Pointing
accuracy equal to, or less (better) than 6 arc/minutes RMS at 45
degrees latitude; or
2. Designed to have a non-operating shock level of at least 900 g at
a duration of at least 1 msec.
Note: The parameters of I.a. and I.b. are applicable with any of the
following environmental conditions
1. Input random vibration with an overall magnitude of 7,7 g
rms in the first half hour and a total test duration of one
and a half hours per axis in each of the three perpendicular
axes, when the random vibration meets the following
a. A constant power spectral density (PSD) value of 0,04 g 2 /
Hz over a frequency interval of 15 to 1 000 Hz; and
b. The PSD attenuates with a frequency from 0,04 g 2 /Hz to
0,01 g 2 /Hz over a frequency interval from 1 000 to
2 000 Hz;
2. A roll and yaw rate equal to or greater than + 2,62 radian/s
(150 deg/s); or
3. According to national standards equivalent to 1. or 2. above.
Technical Notes
1. I.b. refers to systems in which an INS and other independent
navigation aids are built into a single unit (embedded) in order
to achieve improved performance.
2. ‘Circular Error Probable’ (CEP) – In a circular normal
distribution, the radius of the circle containing 50 percent of
the individual measurements being made, or the radius of the
circle within which there is a 50 percent probability of being
located.
II. Theodolite systems incorporating inertial equipment specially designed
for civil surveying purposes and designed to have an Azimuth, Heading,
or North Pointing accuracy equal to, or less (better) than 6 arc minutes
RMS at 45 degrees latitude, and specially designed components thereof.
III. Inertial or other equipment using accelerometers specified in 7A001 or
7A101, where such accelerometers are specially designed and developed
as MWD (Measurement While Drilling) sensors for use in downhole well
services operations.
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Explosive bolts.
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Description
Technology required for the development, production, or use of the items in
Part II.A. (Goods) above.
Technology required for the development or production of the items in Part
IV A. (Goods) of Annex IV.
Technical Note
The term ‘technology’ includes software.
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ANNEX III
List of equipment which might be used for internal repression as referred to in point (b) of Article 2(1), point (c)
of Article 5(1) and point (e) of Article 5(1)
1. Fire-arms, ammunition and related accessories therefor, as follows
1.1 Firearms not controlled by ML 1 and ML 2 of the Common Military List of the European Union (‘Common
Military List’) ( 1 );
1.2 Ammunition specially designed for the firearms listed in item 1.1 and specially designed components therefor;
1.3 Weapon-sights not controlled by the Common Military List.
2. Bombs and grenades not controlled by the Common Military List.
3. Vehicles as follows
3.1 Vehicles equipped with a water cannon, specially designed or modified for the purpose of riot control;
3.2 Vehicles specially designed or modified to be electrified to repel borders;
3.3 Vehicles specially designed or modified to remove barricades, including construction equipment with ballistic
protection;
3.4 Vehicles specially designed for the transport or transfer of prisoners and/or detainees;
3.5 Vehicles specially designed to deploy mobile barriers;
3.6 Components for the vehicles specified in items 3.1 to 3.5 specially designed for the purposes of riot control.
Note 1 This item does not control vehicles specially designed for the purposes of fire-fighting.
Note 2 For the purposes of item 3.5 the term ‘vehicles’ includes trailers.
4. Explosive substances and related equipment as follows
4.1 Equipment and devices specially designed to initiate explosions by electrical or non-electrical means, including
firing sets, detonators, igniters, boosters and detonating cord, and specially designed components therefor; except
those specially designed for a specific commercial use consisting of the actuation or operation by explosive
means of other equipment or devices the function of which is not the creation of explosions (e.g., car air-bag
inflaters, electric-surge arresters of fire sprinkler actuators);
4.2 Linear cutting explosive charges not controlled by the Common Military List;
4.3 Other explosives not controlled by the Common Military List and related substances as follows
a. amatol;
b. nitrocellulose (containing more than 12,5 % nitrogen);
c. nitroglycol;
d. pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN);
e. picryl chloride;
f. 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT).
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5. Protective equipment not controlled by ML 13 of the Common Military List as follows
5.1 Body armour providing ballistic and/or stabbing protection;
5.2 Helmets providing ballistic and/or fragmentation protection, anti-riot helmets, antiriot shields and ballistic
shields.
Note: This item does not control
— equipment specially designed for sports activities;
— equipment specially designed for safety of work requirements.
6. Simulators, other than those controlled by ML 14 of the Common Military List, for training in the use of firearms,
and specially designed software therefor.
7. Night vision, thermal imaging equipment and image intensifier tubes, other than those controlled by the Common
Military List.
8. Razor barbed wire.
9. Military knives, combat knives and bayonets with blade lengths in excess of 10 cm.
10. Production equipment specially designed for the items specified in this list.
11. Specific technology for the development, production or use of the items specified in this list.
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ANNEX IV
Goods and technology referred to in Articles 3 and 5(2)
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
1. Unless otherwise stated, reference numbers used in the column below entitled ‘Description’ refer to the descriptions of
dual use items and technology set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
2. A reference number in the column below entitled ‘Related item from Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009’ means
that the characteristics of the item described in the ‘Description’ column lie outside the parameters set out in the
description of the dual use entry referred to.
3. Definitions of terms between ‘single quotation marks’ are given in a technical note to the relevant item.
4. Definitions of terms between “double quotation marks” can be found in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
GENERAL NOTES
1. The object of the controls contained in this Annex should not be defeated by the export of any non-controlled goods
(including plant) containing one or more controlled components when the controlled component or components
is/are the principal element of the goods and can feasibly be removed or used for other purposes.
N.B.: In judging whether the controlled component or components is/are to be considered the principal element, it is necessary to
weigh the factors of quantity, value and technological know-how involved and other special circumstances which might
establish the controlled component or components as the principal element of the goods being procured.
2. The goods specified in this Annex include both new and used goods.
GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NOTE (GTN)
(To be read in conjunction with Section IV.B)
1. The sale, supply, transfer or export of ‘technology’ which is ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of
goods the sale, supply, transfer or export of which is controlled in Part A (Goods) below, is controlled in accordance
with the provisions of Section IV.B.
2. The ‘technology’ ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of goods under control remains under control
even when it is applicable to non-controlled goods.
3. Controls do not apply to that ‘technology’ which is the minimum necessary for the installation, operation, main
tenance (checking) and repair of those goods which are not controlled or the export of which has been authorised in
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 or This Regulation.
4. Controls on ‘technology’ transfer do not apply to information ‘in the public domain’, to ‘basic scientific research’ or to
the minimum necessary information for patent applications.
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IV.A. GOODS
A0. Nuclear Materials, Facilities, and Equipment
Related item from Annex I
Description
Pipes, piping, flanges, fittings made of, or lined with, nickel or nickel alloy
containing more than 40 % nickel by weight, other than those specified in
2B350.h.1., in respect of pipes having an inner diameter larger than 100 mm.
Vacuum pumps other than those specified in 0B002.f.2 or 2B231, as follows
Turbomolecular pumps having a flowrate equal to or greater than 400 l/s,
Roots type vacuum roughing pumps having a volumetric aspiration flowrate
greater than 200 m 3 /h.
Bellows-sealed, scroll, dry compressor, and bellows-sealed, scroll, dry vacuum
pumps.
A1. Materials, chemicals, ‘micro-organisms’ and ‘toxins’
Related item from Annex I
Description
Ring-shaped seals and gaskets, having an inner diameter of 400 mm or less,
made of any of the following materials
a. Copolymers of vinylidene fluoride having 75 % or more beta crystalline
structure without stretching;
b. Fluorinated polyimides containing 10 % by weight or more of combined
fluorine;
c. Fluorinated phosphazene elastomers containing 30 % by weight or more
of combined fluorine;
d. Polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE, e.g. Kel-F ®);
e. Fluoro-elastomers (e.g., Viton ®, Tecnoflon ®);
f. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).
Personal equipment for detecting radiation of nuclear origin, including
personal dosimeters.
Note: This item does not cover nuclear detection systems defined in item 1A004.c.
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A2. Materials Processing
Related item from Annex I
Description
Controlled atmosphere heat treatment furnaces, as follows
Furnaces capable of operation at temperatures above 400 °C.
Liquid-liquid contacting equipment (mixer-settlers, pulsed columns,
centrifugal contactors); and liquid distributors, vapour distributors or liquid
collectors designed for such equipment, where all surfaces that come in direct
contact with the chemical(s) being processed are made from any of the
following materials
1. Alloys with more than 25 % nickel and 20 % chromium by weight;
2. Fluoropolymers;
3. Glass (including vitrified or enamelled coating or glass lining);
4. Graphite or ‘carbon graphite’;
5. Nickel or alloys with more than 40 % nickel by weight;
6. Tantalum or tantalum alloys;
7. Titanium or titanium alloys;
8. Zirconium or zirconium alloys; or
9. Stainless steel.
Technical Note
‘Carbon graphite’ is a composition consisting of amorphous carbon and graphite, in
which the graphite content is 8 % or more by weight.
Industrial equipment and components, other than those specified in 2B350.d,
as follows
Heat exchangers or condensers with a heat transfer surface area greater than
0,05 m 2 , and less than 30 m 2 ; and tubes, plates, coils or blocks (cores)
designed for such heat exchangers or condensers, where all surfaces that
come in direct contact with the fluid(s) are made from any of the
following materials
1. Alloys with more than 25 % nickel and 20 % chromium by weight;
2. Fluoropolymers;
3. Glass (including vitrified or enamelled coating or glass lining);
4. Graphite or ‘carbon graphite’;
5. Nickel or alloys with more than 40 % nickel by weight;
6. Tantalum or tantalum alloys;
7. Titanium or titanium alloys;
8. Zirconium or zirconium alloys;
9. Silicon carbide;
10. Titanium carbide; or
11. Stainless steel.
Note: This item does not cover vehicle radiators.
Technical Note
The materials used for gaskets and seals and other implementation of sealing
functions do not determine the status of control of the heat exchanger.
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Description
Multiple-seal, and seal-less pumps, other than those specified in 2B350.i,
suitable for corrosive fluids, with manufacturer's specified maximum flow-
rate greater than 0,6 m 3 /hour, or vacuum pumps with manufacturer's
specified maximum flow-rate greater than 5 m 3 /hour [measured under
standard temperature (273 K or 0 °C) and pressure (101,3 k Pa) conditions];
and casings (pump bodies), preformed casing liners, impellers, rotors or jet
pump nozzles designed for such pumps, in which all surfaces that come in
direct contact with the chemical(s) being processed are made from any of the
following materials
1. Alloys with more than 25 % nickel and 20 % chromium by weight;
2. Ceramics;
3. Ferrosilicon;
4. Fluoropolymers;
5. Glass (including vitrified or enamelled coatings or glass lining);
6. Graphite or ‘carbon graphite’;
7. Nickel or alloys with more than 40 % nickel by weight;
8. Tantalum or tantalum alloys;
9. Titanium or titanium alloys;
10. Zirconium or zirconium alloys;
11. Niobium (columbium) or niobium alloys;
12. Stainless steel; or
13. Aluminium alloys.
Technical Note
The materials used for gaskets and seals and other implementation of sealing
functions do not determine the status of control of the pump.
A3. Electronics
Related item from Annex I
Description
Spectrometers and diffractometers, designed for the indicative test or quanti
tative analysis of the elemental composition of metals or alloys without
chemical decomposition of the material.
IV.B. TECHNOLOGY
Related item from Annex I
Description
Technology required for the use of the items in Part IV.A. (Goods) above.
Technical Note
The term ‘technology’ includes software.
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ANNEX V
Web sites for information on the competent authorities referred to in Articles 3(5) and (6), 5(3), 7(1), 10, 12(2),
13, 17, 18, 19(1) and (2), 21(1) and (4), 22(1), 23(1), 31(1) and 38(1), and address for notifications to the
European Commission
BELGIUM
http://www.diplomatie.be/eusanctions
BULGARIA
http://www.mfa.government.bg
CZECH REPUBLIC
http://www.mfcr.cz/mezinarodnisankce
DENMARK
http://www.um.dk/da/menu/Udenrigspolitik/FredSikkerhedOgInternationalRetsorden/Sanktioner/
GERMANY
http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Navigation/Aussenwirtschaft/Aussenwirtschaftsrecht/embargos.html
ESTONIA
http://www.vm.ee/est/kat_622/
IRELAND
http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=28519
GREECE
http://www.ypex.gov.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Policy/Multilateral+Diplomacy/International+Sanctions/
SPAIN
http://www.maec.es/es/MenuPpal/Asuntos/Sanciones%20Internacionales/Paginas/Sanciones_%20Internacionales.aspx
FRANCE
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/autorites-sanctions/
ITALY
http://www.esteri.it/UE/deroghe.html
CYPRUS
http://www.mfa.gov.cy/sanctions
LATVIA
http://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/security/4539
LITHUANIA
http://www.urm.lt
LUXEMBOURG
http://www.mae.lu/sanctions
HUNGARY
http://www.kulugyminiszterium.hu/kum/hu/bal/Kulpolitikank/nemzetkozi_szankciok/
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MALTA
http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/bodies/boards/sanctions_monitoring.asp
NETHERLANDS
http://www.minbuza.nl/sancties
AUSTRIA
http://www.bmeia.gv.at/view.php3?f_id=12750&LNG=en&version=
POLAND
http://www.msz.gov.pl
PORTUGAL
http://www.min-nestrangeiros.pt
ROMANIA
http://www.mae.ro/index.php?unde=doc&id=32311&idlnk=1&cat=3
SLOVENIA
http://www.mzz.gov.si/si/zunanja_politika/mednarodna_varnost/omejevalni_ukrepi/
SLOVAKIA
http://www.foreign.gov.sk
FINLAND
http://formin.finland.fi/kvyhteistyo/pakotteet
SWEDEN
http://www.ud.se/sanktioner
UNITED KINGDOM
www.fco.gov.uk/competentauthorities
Address for notifications to the European Commission
European Commission
DG External Relations
Directorate A Crisis Platform — Policy Coordination in Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
Unit A.2. Crisis Response and Peace Building
CHAR 12/106
B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel (Belgium)
E-mail: relex-sanctions@ec.europa.eu
Tel.: (32-2) 295 55 85
Fax: (32-2) 299 08 73
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ANNEX VI
List of key equipment and technology referred to in Article 8
GENERAL NOTES
1. The object of the prohibitions contained in this Annex should not be defeated by the export of any non-prohibited
goods (including plant) containing one or more prohibited components when the prohibited component or
components are the principal element of the goods and can feasibly be removed or used for other purposes.
N.B.: In judging whether the prohibited component or components are to be considered the principal element, it is necessary to
weigh the factors of quantity, value and technological know-how involved and other special circumstances which might
establish the prohibited component or components as the principal element of the goods being procured.
2. The goods specified in this Annex include both new and used goods.
3. Definitions of terms between ‘single quotation marks’ are given in a technical note to the relevant item.
4. Definitions of terms between “double quotation marks” can be found in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NOTE (GTN)
1. The ‘technology’ ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of prohibited goods remains under prohibition
even when applicable to non-prohibited goods.
2. Prohibitions do not apply to that ‘technology’ which is the minimum necessary for the installation, operation, main
tenance (checking) and repair of those goods which are not prohibited or the export of which has been authorised in
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 423/2007 or this Regulation.
3. Prohibitions on ‘technology’ transfer do not apply to information ‘in the public domain’, to ‘basic scientific research’ or
to the minimum necessary information for patent applications.
EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION OF CRUDE OIL AND NATURAL GAS
1.A Equipment
1. Geophysical survey equipment, vehicles, vessels and aircraft specially designed or adapted to acquire data for oil and
gas exploration and specially designed components therefor.
2. Sensors specially designed for downhole well operations in oil and gas wells, including sensors used for measurement
whilst drilling and the associated equipment specially designed to acquire and store data from such sensors.
3. Drilling equipment designed to drill rock formations, specifically for the purpose of exploring for, or producing oil,
gas and other naturally occurring, hydrocarbon materials.
4. Drill bits, drill pipes, drill collars, centralisers and other equipment, specially designed for use in and with oil and gas
well drilling equipment.
5. Drilling wellheads, ‘blowout preventers’ and ‘Christmas or production trees’ and the specially designed components
thereof, meeting the ‘API and ISO specifications’ for use with oil and gas wells.
Technical Notes
a. A ‘blowout preventer’ is a device typically used at ground level (or if drilling underwater, at the seabed) during drilling to
prevent the uncontrolled escape of oil and/or gas from the well.
b. A ‘Christmas tree or production tree’ is a device typically used to control flow of fluids from the well when it is complete and
oil and/or gas production has started.
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c. For the purpose of this item, ‘API and ISO specifications’refers to the American Petroleum Institute specifications 6A, 16A,
17D and 11IW and/or the International Standards Organisation specifications 10423 and 13533 for blowout preventers,
wellhead and Christmas trees for use on oil and/or gas wells.
6. Drilling and production platforms for crude oil and natural gas.
7. Vessels and barges incorporating drilling and/or petroleum processing equipment used for producing oil, gas and
other naturally occurring flammable materials.
8. Liquid/gas separators meeting API specification 12J, specially designed to process the production from an oil or gas
well, to separate the petroleum liquids from any water and any gas from the liquids.
9. Gas compressor with a design pressure of 40 bar (PN 40 and/or ANSI 300) or more and having a suction volume
capacity of 300 000 Nm 3 /h or more, for the initial processing and transmission of natural gas, excluded gas
compressors for CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) filling stations, and specially designed components therefor.
10. Subsea production control equipment and the components thereof meeting ‘API and ISO specifications’ for use with
oil and gas wells.
Technical Note
For the purposes of this entry, ‘API and ISO specifications’ refers to the American Petroleum Institute specification 17 F and/or
the International Standards Organisation specification 13268 for subsea production control systems.
11. Pumps, typically high capacity and/or high pressure (in excess of 0.3 m 3 per minute and/or 40 bar), specially
designed to pump drilling muds and/or cement into oil and gas wells.
1.B Test and inspection equipment
1. Equipment specially designed for sampling, testing and analysing the properties of drilling mud, oil well cements and
other materials specially designed and/or formulated for use in oil and gas wells.
2. Equipment specially designed for sampling, testing and analysing the properties of rock samples, liquid and gaseous
samples and other materials taken from an oil and/or gas well either during or after drilling, or from the initial
processing facilities attached thereto.
3. Equipment specially designed for collecting and interpreting information about the physical and mechanical condition
of an oil and/or gas well, and for determining the in situ properties of the rock and reservoir formation.
1.C Materials
1. Drilling mud, drilling mud additives and the components thereof, specially formulated to stabilise oil and gas wells
during drilling, to recover drill cuttings to the surface and to lubricate and cool the drilling equipment in the well.
2. Cements and other materials meeting the ‘API and ISO specifications’ for use in oil and gas wells.
Technical Note
‘API and ISO specification’ refers to the American Petroleum Institute specification 10A or the International Standards Organi
sation specification 10426 for oil well cements and other materials specially formulated for use in the cementing of oil and gas
wells.
3. Corrosion inhibiting, emulsion treatment, defoaming agents and other chemicals specially formulated to be used in the
drilling for, and the initial processing of, petroleum produced from an oil and/or gas well.
1.D Software
1. ‘Software’ specially designed to collect and interpret data acquired from seismic, electromagnetic, magnetic or gravity
surveys for the purpose of establishing oil or gas prospectivity.
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2. ‘Software’ specially designed for storing, analysing and interpreting information acquired during drilling and
production to assess the physical characteristics and behaviour of oil or gas reservoirs.
3. ‘Software’ specially designed for the ‘use’ of petroleum production and processing facilities or specific sub-units of such
facilities.
1.E Technology
1. ‘Technology’ ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ and ‘use’ of equipment specified in 1.A.01 – 1.A.11.
REFINING OF CRUDE OIL AND LIQUEFACTION OF NATURAL GAS
2.A Equipment
1. Heat exchangers as follows and specially designed components therefor
a. Plate-fin heat exchangers with a surface/volume ratio greater than 500 m 2 /m 3 , specially designed for pre-cooling
of natural gas;
b. Coil-wound heat exchangers specially designed for liquefaction or sub-cooling of natural gas.
2. Cryogenic pumps for the transport of media at a temperature – 120 °C having a transport capacity of more than
500 m 3 /h and specially designed components therefor.
3. ‘Coldbox’ and ‘coldbox’ equipment not specified by 2.A.1.
Technical Note
‘Coldbox’ equipment’ refers to a specially designed construction, which is specific for LNG plants and incorporates the process stage
of liquefaction. The ‘coldbox’ comprises heat exchangers, piping, other instrumentation and thermal insulators. The temperature
inside the ‘coldbox’ is below – 120 °C (conditions for condensation of natural gas). The function of the ‘coldbox’ is the thermal
insulation of the above described equipment.
4. Equipment for shipping terminals of liquefied gases having a temperature below – 120 °C and specially designed
components therefor.
5. Flexible and non-flexible transfer line having a diameter greater than 50 mm for the transport of media
below – 120 °C.
6. Maritime vessels specially designed for the transport of LNG.
7. Electrostatic desalters specially designed to remove contaminants such as salts, solids and water from crude oil and
specially designed components therefor.
8. All crackers, including hydrocrackers, and cokers, specially designed for conversion of vacuum gas oils or vacuum
residuum, and specially designed components therefor.
9. Hydrotreaters specially designed for desulphurisation of gasoline, diesel cuts and kerosene and specially designed
components therefor.
10. Catalytic reformers specially designed for conversion of desulphurised gasoline into high-octane gasoline, and
specially designed components therefor.
11. Refinery units for C5-C6 cuts isomerisation, and refinery units for alkylation of light olefins, to improve the octane
index of the hydrocarbon cuts.
12. Pumps specially designed for the transport of crude oil and fuels, having a capacity of 50 m 3 /h or more and specially
designed components therefor.
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13. Tubes with an outer diameter of 0,2 m or more and made from any of the following materials
a. Stainless steels with 23 % chromium or more by weight;
b. Stainless steels and nickel bases alloys with a ‘Pitting resistance equivalent’ number higher than 33.
Technical Note
‘Pitting resistance equivalent’ (PRE) number characterises the corrosion resistance of stainless steels and nickel alloys to pitting or
crevice corrosion. The pitting resistance of stainless steels and nickel alloys is primarily determined by their compositions, primarily
chromium, molybdenum, and nitrogen. The formula to calculate the PRE number is: PRE = Cr + 3,3 % Mo + 30 % N
14. ‘Pigs’ (Pipeline Inspection Gauge(s)) and specially designed components therefor
Technical Note
‘Pig’ is a device typically used for cleaning or inspection of a pipeline from inside (corrosion state or crack formation) and is
propelled by the pressure of the product in the pipeline.
15. Pig launchers and pig catchers for the integration or removing of pigs.
16. Tanks for the storage of crude oil and fuels with a volume greater than 1 000 m 3 (1 000 000 litres) as follows, and
specially designed components therefor
a. fixed roof tanks;
b. floating roof tanks.
17. Subsea flexible pipes specially designed for the transportation of hydrocarbons and injection fluids, water or gas,
having a diameter greater than 50 mm.
18. Flexible pipes used for high pressure for topside and subsea application.
19. Isomeration equipment specially designed for production of high-octane gasoline based on light hydrocarbons as
feed, and specially designed components therefor.
2.B Test and inspection equipment
1. Equipment specially designed for testing and analysing of quality (properties) of crude oil and fuels.
2. Interface control systems specially designed for controlling and optimising of the desalting process.
2.C Materials
1. Diethyleneglycol (CAS 111-46-6), Triethylene glycol (CAS 112-27-6)
2. N-Methylpyrrolidon (CAS 872-50-4), Sulfolane (CAS 126-33-0)
3. Zeolites, of natural or synthetic origin, specially designed for fluid catalytic cracking or for the purification and/or
dehydration of gases, including natural gases.
4. Catalysts for the cracking and conversion of hydrocarbons as follows
a. Single metal (platinum group) on alumina type or on zeolite, specially designed for catalytic reforming process;
b. Mixed metal species (platinum in combination with other noble metals) on alumina type or on zeolite, specially
designed for catalytic reforming process;
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c. Cobalt and nickel catalysts doped with molybdenum on alumina type or on zeolite, specially designed for catalytic
desulphurisation process;
d. Palladium, nickel, chromium and tungsten catalysts on alumina type or on zeolite, specially designed for catalytic
hydrocracking process.
5. Gasoline additives specially formulated for increasing the octane number of gasoline.
Note
This entry includes Ethyl tertiary butyl ether(ETBE) (CAS 637-92-3) and Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE)
CAS 1634-04-4).
2.D Software
1. ‘Software’ specially designed for the ‘use’ of LNG plants or specific sub-units of such plants.
2. ‘Software’ specially designed for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of plants (including their sub-units) for oil
refining.
2.E Technology
1. ‘Technology’ for the conditioning and purification of raw natural gas (dehydration, sweetening, removal of impurities).
2. ‘Technology’ for the liquefaction of natural gas, including ‘technology’ required for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or
‘use’ of LNG plants.
3. ‘Technology’ for the shipment of liquefied natural gas.
4. ‘Technology’ ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of maritime vessels specially designed for the
transport of liquefied natural gas.
5. ‘Technology’ for storage of crude oil and fuels.
6. ‘Technology’ ‘required’ for the ‘development’, ‘production’ or ‘use’ of a refinery plant, such as
6.1. ‘Technology’ for conversion of light olefin to gasoline;
6.2. Catalytic reforming and isomerisation technology;
6.3. Catalytic and thermal cracking technology.
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ANNEX VII
List of persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 16(1)
A. Legal persons, entities and bodies
Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
1. Abzar Boresh Kaveh Co. (alias
Involved in the production of
Date of UN
BK Co.)
centrifuge components.
designation
3.3.2008
2. Amin Industrial Complex
Address
(a) Amin Industrial Complex
Date of UN
(alias (a) Amin Industrial
(a) P.O. Box 91735-549,
sought
temperature
designation
Compound,
(b)
Amin
Mashad, Iran;
controllers which may be
9.6.2010
Industrial Company)
(b) Amin Industrial Estate,
used in nuclear research
Khalage Rd., Seyedi
and operational/production
District, Mashad, Iran;
facilities;
(c) Kaveh Complex, Khalaj
(b) Amin Industrial Complex is
Rd., Seyedi St., Mashad,
owned or controlled by, or
Iran.
acts on behalf of, the
Defense Industries Organ
ization (DIO), which was
designated in UN Security
Council Resolution 1737
(2006).
3. Ammunition and Metallurgy
(a) AMIG controls 7th of Tir;
Date of UN
Industries Group (alias (a)
(b) AMIG is owned and
designation
AMIG,
(b)
Ammunition
controlled by the Defence
4.3.2007
Industries Group)
Industries
Organisation
(DIO).
4. Armament Industries Group
Address
(a) Armament Industries Group
Date of EU
(a) Sepah Islam Road, Karaj
(AIG) manufacturers and
designation
Special Road Km 10,
services a variety of small
24.4.2007
Iran;
arms and light weapons,
(UN: 9.6.2010)
(b) Pasdaran Ave., P.O. Box
including
large-
and
19585/777,
Tehran,
medium-calibre guns and
Iran.
related technology;
(b) AIG conducts the majority
of its procurement activity
through Hadid Industries
Complex.
5. Atomic Energy Organization
Involved in
Iran's
nuclear
Date of UN
of Iran (AEOI)
programme.
designation
23.12.2006
6. Bank Sepah and Bank Sepah
Bank Sepah provides support
Date of UN
International
for the Aerospace Industries
designation
Organisation (AIO) and subor
24.3.2007
dinates,
including
Shahid
Hemmat
Industrial
Group
(SHIG) and Shahid Bagheri
Industrial Group (SBIG).
7. Barzagani Tejarat Tavanmad
(a) subsidiary of Saccal System
Date of UN
Saccal companies
companies;
designation
(b) this company tried to
3.3.2008
purchase sensitive goods
for an entity listed in
resolution 1737 (2006).
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ELETTRONIKA
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
8. Cruise Missile Industry Group
Date of UN
(alias Naval Defence Missile
designation
Industry Group)
24.3.2007
9. Defence Industries
Organi
(a) Overarching
MODAFL-
Date of UN
sation (DIO)
controlled entity, some of
designation
whose subordinates have
23.12.2006
been involved in the
centrifuge
programme
making components, and
in the missile programme;
(b) Involved in Iran's nuclear
programme.
10. Defense Technology and
Address
Defense
Technology
and
Date of EU
Science Research Center
Pasdaran Ave, PO Box
Science
Research
Center
designation
24.4.2007
19585/777, Tehran, Iran.
(DTSRC) is owned or controlled
by, or acts on behalf of, Iran's
(UN: 9.6.2010)
Ministry of Defense and Armed
Forces Logistics (MODAFL),
which oversees Iran's defence
R&D, production, maintenance,
exports, and procurement.
11. Doostan
International
Doostan International Company
Date of UN
Company
(DICO) supplies elements to
designation
Iran's ballistic missile program.
9.6.2010
12. Electro Sanam Company (alias
AIO front-company, involved in
Date of UN
(a) E. S. Co., (b) E. X. Co.)
the ballistic missile programme.
designation
3.3.2008
13. Esfahan Nuclear Fuel Research
They are parts of the Atomic
Date of UN
and
Production
Centre
Energy Organisation of Iran's
designation
(NFRPC) and Esfahan Nuclear
(AEOI) Nuclear Fuel Production
24.3.2007
Technology Centre (ENTC)
and Procurement Company.
14. Ettehad Technical Group
AIO front-company, involved in
Date of UN
the ballistic missile programme.
designation
3.3.2008
15. Fajr Industrial Group
(a) Formerly Instrumentation
Date of UN
Factory Plant;
designation
(b) Subordinate entity of AIO;
23.12.2006
(c) Involved in Iran's ballistic
missile programme.
16. Farasakht Industries
Address
Farasakht Industries is owned or
Date of UN
P.O.
Box
83145-311,
controlled by, or acts on behalf
designation
Kilometer
28,
Esfahan-
of, the Iran Aircraft Manufac
9.6.2010
Tehran Freeway, Shahin
turing Company, which in turn
Shahr, Esfahan, Iran.
is owned or controlled by
MODAFL.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
17. Farayand Technique
(a) Involved in Iran's nuclear
Date of UN
programme
(centrifuge
designation
programme);
23.12.2006
(b) Identified in IAEA reports.
18. Fater (or Faater) Institute
(a) Khatam al-Anbiya (KAA)
Date of UN
designation
subsidiary;
(b) Fater has worked with
9.6.2010
foreign suppliers, likely on
behalf of other KAA
companies
on
IRGC
projects in Iran;
(c) Owned or controlled by, or
acting on behalf of, the
Islamic
Revolutionary
Guard Corps.
19. First East Export Bank, P.L.C.
Address
(a) First East Export Bank, PLC
Date of UN
Unit Level 10 (B1), Main
is owned or controlled by,
designation
Office Tower, Financial Park
or acts on behalf of, Bank
9.6.2010
Labuan,
Jalan
Merdeka,
Mellat;
87000
WP
Labuan,
(b) Over the last seven years,
Malaysia.
Bank Mellat has facilitated
hundreds of millions of
dollars in transactions for
Iranian nuclear, missile,
and defense entities;
(c) Business
Registration
Number
LL06889
(Malaysia).
20. Gharagahe Sazandegi Ghaem
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Gharagahe Sazandegi Ghaem is
owned or controlled by KAA
(see below).
21. Ghorb Karbala
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Ghorb Karbala is owned or
controlled by KAA (see below).
22. Ghorb Nooh
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Ghorb Nooh is owned or
controlled by KAA (see below).
23. Hara Company
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Owned or controlled by Ghorb
Nooh.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
24. Imensazan
Consultant
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
Engineers Institute
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Owned or controlled by, or
acts on behalf of, KAA (see
below).
25. Industrial
Factories
of
Used by AIO for
some
Date of UN
Precision (IFP) Machinery
acquisition attempts.
designation
(alias
Instrumentation
3.3.2008
Factories Plant)
26. Irano
Hind
Shipping
Address
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
Company
(a) 18 Mehrshad Street,
acting on behalf of the Islamic
designation
Sadaghat
Street,
Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.
9.6.2010
Opposite of Park Mellat,
Vali-e-Asr Ave., Tehran,
Iran;
(b) 265, Next to Mehrshad,
Sedaghat St., Opposite
of Mellat Park, Vali Asr
Ave., Tehran 1A001,
Iran.
27. IRISL Benelux NV
Address
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
Noorderlaan 139, B-2030,
acting on behalf of the Islamic
designation
Antwerp, Belgium V.A.T.
Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.
9.6.2010
Number
BE480224531
(Belgium).
Jabber Ibn Hayan
AEOI laboratory involved in
Date of EU
fuel cycle acitivties.
designation
24.4.2007
(UN: 3.3.2008)
Joza Industrial Co.
AIO front-company, involved in
Date of UN
the ballistic missile programme.
designation
3.3.2008
Kala-Electric
(alias
Kalaye
(a) Provider for PFEP —
Date of UN
Electric)
Natanz;
designation
(b) Involved in Iran's nuclear
23.12.2006
programme.
Karaj Nuclear Research Centre
Part of AEOI's research division.
Date of UN
designation
24.3.2007
Kaveh
Cutting
Tools
Address
Kaveh Cutting Tools Company
Date of UN
Company
(a) 3rd Km of Khalaj Road,
is owned or controlled by, or
designation
Seyyedi Street, Mashad
acts on behalf of, the DIO.
9.6.2010
91638, Iran;
(b) Km 4 of Khalaj Road,
End of Seyedi Street,
Mashad, Iran;
(c) P.O. Box 91735-549,
Mashad, Iran;
(d) Khalaj Rd., End of
Seyyedi Alley, Mashad,
Iran;
(e) Moqan St., Pasdaran St.,
Pasdaran Cross Rd.,
Tehran, Iran.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
Kavoshyar Company
Subsidiary company of AEOI.
Date of UN
designation
24.3.2007
Khatam al-Anbiya
Khatam al-Anbiya Construction
Date of EU
Construction Headquarters
Headquarters (KAA) is an
designation
Islamic Revolutionary Guard
24.6.2008
Corps (IRGC)-owned company
(UN: 9.6.2010)
involved in large scale civil
and
military
construction
projects and other engineering
activities. It undertakes a
significant amount of work on
Passive Defense Organization
projects. In particular, KAA
subsidiaries
were
heavily
involved in the construction of
the uranium enrichment site at
Qom/Fordow.
Khorasan Metallurgy
(a) Subsidiary
of
the
Date of UN
Industries
Ammunition
Industries
designation
Group
(AMIG)
which
3.3.2008
depends on DIO;
(b) involved in the production
of centrifuge components.
M. Babaie Industries
Address
(a) M. Babaie Industries is
Date of UN
P.O. Box 16535-76, Tehran,
subordinate
to
Shahid
designation
16548, Iran.
Ahmad Kazemi Industries
9.6.2010.
Group (formally the Air
Defense Missile Industries
Group) of Iran's Aerospace
Industries
Organization
(AIO);
(b) AIO controls the missile
organizations
Shahid
Hemmat Industrial Group
(SHIG) and the Shahid
Bakeri Industrial Group
(SBIG), both of which were
designated in resolution
1737.
Makin
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010.
Makin is owned or controlled
by or acting on behalf of
KAA, and is a subsidiary of
KAA.
Malek Ashtar University
Address
(a) a subordinate of the DTRSC
Date of EU
Corner
of
Imam
Ali
within MODAFL;
designation
Highway
and
Babaei
(b) this
includes
research
24.6.2008
Highway, Tehran, Iran.
groups previously falling
(UN: 9.6.2010)
under the Physics Research
Center (PHRC);
(c) IAEA inspectors have not
been allowed to interview
staff or see documents
under the control of this
organization to resolve the
outstanding issue of the
possible military dimension
to Iran's nuclear program.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
Mesbah Energy Company
(a) Provider for A40 research
Date of UN
reactor — Arak;
designation
(b) Involved in Iran's nuclear
23.12.2006
programme.
Ministry of Defense Logistics
Address
Ministry of Defense Logistics
Date of EU
Export.
(a) PO Box 16315-189,
Export (MODLEX) sells Iranian-
designation
Tehran, Iran;
produced arms to customers
24.6.2008
(b) located on the west side
around the world in contra
(UN: 9.6.2010)
of
Dabestan
Street,
vention
of
UN
Security
Abbas Abad District,
Council
Resolution
Tehran, Iran.
(2007), which prohibits Iran
from selling arms or related
materiel.
Mizan Machinery Manufac
Address
Mizan Machinery Manufacturing
Date of EU
turing (alias 3MG).
O. Box 16595-365, Tehran,
(3M) is owned or controlled by,
designation
Iran.
or acts on behalf of, SHIG.
24.6.2008
(UN: 9.6.2010)
Modern Industries Technique
Address
(a) Modern
Industries
Date of UN
Company (alias (a) Rahkar
Arak, Iran.
Technique
Company
designation
Company,(b)
Rahkar
(MITEC) is responsible for
9.6.2010
Industries, (c) Rahkar Sanaye
design and construction of
Company, (d) Rahkar Sanaye
the IR-40 heavy water
Novin).
reactor in Arak;
(b) MITEC has spearheaded
procurement
for
the
construction of the IR-40
heavy water reactor.
Niru Battery Manufacturing
(a) subsidiary of the DIO;
Date of UN
Company
(b) its role is to manufacture
designation
power units for the Iranian
3.3.2008
military including missile
systems.
Novin Energy Company (alias
It operates within AEOI.
Date of UN
Pars Novin)
designation
24.3.2007
Nuclear Research Center for
Address
(a) the Nuclear Research Center
Date of UN
Agriculture and Medicine
P.O.
Box
31585-4395,
for
Agriculture
and
designation
(alias (a) Center for Agri
Karaj, Iran.
Medicine (NFRPC) is a
9.6.2010
cultural Research and Nuclear
large research component
Medicine, (b) Karaji Agri
of the Atomic Energy
cultural and Medical Research
Organization
of
Iran
Center).
(AEOI),
which
was
designated in UN Security
Council Resolution 1737
(2006);
(b) the NFRPC is AEOI's center
for the development of
nuclear fuel and is involved
in
enrichment-related
activities
Omran Sahel
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Owned or controlled by Ghorb
Nooh.
Oriental Oil Kish
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Oriental Oil Kish is owned or
controlled by or acting on
behalf of KAA.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
Parchin Chemical Industries
Branch of DIO
Date of UN
designation
24.3.2007
Pars
Aviation
Services
Maintains aircraft
Date of UN
Company
designation
24.3.2007
Pars Trash Company
(a) Involved in Iran's nuclear
Date of UN
programme
(centrifuge
designation
programme);
23.12.2006
(b) Identified in IAEA reports
Pejman Industrial
Services
Address
Pejman
Industrial
Services
Date of UN
Corporation
P.O.
Box
16785-195,
Corporation is owned or
designation
Tehran, Iran
controlled by, or acts on
9.6.2010
behalf of, SBIG
Pishgam (Pioneer)
Energy
Has participated in construction
Date of UN
Industries
of the Uranium Conversion
designation
Facility at Esfahan
3.3.2008
Qods Aeronautics Industries
It produces unmanned aerial
Date of UN
vehicles (UAVs), parachutes,
designation
paragliders, paramotors, etc.
24.3.2007
Rah Sahel
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Rah Sahel is owned or
controlled by or acting on
behalf of KAA.
Rahab Engineering Institute
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Rahab is owned or controlled
by or acting on behalf of
KAA, and is a subsidiary of
KAA.
Sabalan Company
Address
Sabalan is a cover name for
Date of UN
SHIG.
designation
Damavand Tehran Highway,
Tehran, Iran.
9.6.2010
Sanam Industrial Group
Subordinate to AIO.
Date of UN
designation
24.3.2007
Safety
Equipment
AIO front-company, involved in
Date of UN
Procurement (SEP)
the ballistic missile programme.
designation
3.3.2008
Sahand
Aluminum
Parts
Address
SAPICO is a cover name for
Date of UN
Industrial Company (SAPICO)
Damavand Tehran Highway,
SHIG.
designation
Tehran, Iran.
9.6.2010
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
Sahel Consultant Engineers
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Owned or controlled by Ghorb
Nooh.
Sepanir
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Sepanir is owned or controlled
by or acting on behalf of KAA
Sepasad Engineering
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
Company
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
9.6.2010
Sepasad Engineering Company
is owned or controlled by or
acting on behalf of KAA.
7th of Tir.
(a) Subordinate of DIO, widely
Date of UN
recognised as being directly
designation
involved in Iran's nuclear
23.12.2006.
programme;
(b) Involved in Iran's nuclear
programme.
Shahid Bagheri
Industrial
(a) Subordinate entity of AIO;
Date of UN
Group (SBIG)
(b) Involved in Iran's ballistic
designation
missile programme.
23.12.2006.
Shahid Hemmat
Industrial
(a) subordinate entity of AIO;
Date of UN
Group (SHIG)
(b) Involved in Iran's ballistic
designation
missile programme.
23.12.2006.
Shahid Karrazi Industries.
Address
Shahid Karrazi Industries is
Date of UN
Tehran, Iran.
owned or controlled by, or act
designation
on behalf of, SBIG.
9.6.2010
Shahid Satarri Industries (alias
Address
Shahid Sattari Industries is
Date of UN
Shahid
Sattari
Group
Southeast Tehran, Iran.
owned or controlled by, or
designation
Equipment Industries)
acts on behalf of, SBIG.
9.6.2010
Shahid
Sayyade
Shirazi
Address
Shahid
Sayyade
Shirazi
Date of UN
Industries
(a) Next to Nirou Battery
Industries (SSSI) is owned or
designation
Mfg. Co, Shahid Babaii
controlled by, or acts on
9.6.2010
Expressway, Nobonyad
behalf of, the DIO.
Square, Tehran, Iran;
(b) Pasdaran St., P.O. Box
16765, Tehran 1835,
Iran,
(c) Babaei Highway — Next
to Niru M.F.G, Tehran,
Iran.
Sho’a’ Aviation
It produces microlights.
Date of UN
designation
24.3.2007
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
South
Shipping
Line
Iran
Address
Owned or controlled by, or
Date of UN
(SSL)
(a) Apt. No. 7, 3rd Floor,
acting on behalf of, the Islamic
designation
No. 2, 4th Alley, Gandi
Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.
9.6.2010
Ave., Tehran, Iran;
(b) Qaem Magham Farahani
St., Tehran, Iran.
Special Industries Group
Address
Special Industries Group (SIG) is
Date of EU
Pasdaran Avenue, PO Box
a subordinate of DIO.
designation
19585/777, Tehran, Iran.
24.4.2007
(UN: 9.6.2010)
TAMAS Company
(a) involved in enrichment-
Date of EU
related activities;
designation
(b) TAMAS is an overarching
24.4.2007
body, under which four
(UN: 3.3.2008)
subsidiaries
have
been
established, including one
for uranium extraction to
concentration and another
in charge of uranium
processing, enrichment and
waste.
Tiz Pars
Address
(a) Tiz Pars is a cover name for
Date of UN
Damavand Tehran Highway,
SHIG;
designation
Tehran, Iran.
(b) Between April and July
9.6.2010
2007, Tiz Pars attempted
to procure a five axis laser
welding
and
cutting
machine,
which
could
make
a
material
contribution
to
Iran's
missile program, on behalf
of SHIG.
Ya Mahdi Industries Group
Subordinate to AIO.
Date of UN
designation
24.3.2007
Yazd Metallurgy Industries
Address
Metallurgy Industries (YMI) is a
Date of UN
(alias (a) Yazd Ammunition
(a) Pasdaran Avenue, Next
subordinate of DIO.
designation
Manufacturing and Metallurgy
to Telecommunication
9.6.2010
Industries, (b) Directorate of
Industry, Tehran 16588,
Yazd
Ammunition
and
Iran;
Metallurgy Industries.)
(b) Postal Box 89195/878,
Yazd, Iran,
(c) P.O. Box 89195-678,
Yazd, Iran,
(d) Km 5 of Taft Road,
Yazd, Iran.
B. Natural persons
Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
1. Fereidoun ABBASI-DAVANI
Senior Ministry of Defence and
Date of UN
Armed
Forces
Logistics
designation
(MODAFL) scientist with links
24.3.2007
to the Institute of Applied
Physics. Working closely with
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
2. Dawood AGHA-JANI
Function: Head of the PFEP –
Date of UN
Natanz.
designation
Person involved in Iran's
23.12.2006
nuclear programme.
3. Ali Akbar AHMADIAN
Title: Vice Admiral.
Date of UN
Function: Chief of Iranian
designation
Revolutionary Guard Corps
24.3.2007
(IRGC) Joint Staff
4. Amir Moayyed ALAI
Involved in managing the
Date of EU
assembly and engineering of
designation
centrifuges.
24.4.2007
(UN: 3.3.2008)
5. Behman ASGARPOUR
Function: Operational Manager
Date of UN
(Arak)
designation
Person involved in Iran's
23.12.2006
nuclear programme.
6. Mohammad Fedai ASHIANI
Involved in the production of
Date of EU
ammonium uranyl carbonate
designation
and management of the
24.4.2007
Natanz enrichment complex.
(UN: 3.3.2008)
7. Abbas Rezaee ASHTIANI
A senior official at the AEOI
Date of UN
Office of Exploration and
designation
Mining Affairs.
3.3.2008
8. Bahmanyar Morteza
Function: Head of Finance &
Date of UN
BAHMANYAR
Budget
Dept,
Aerospace
designation
Industries Organisation (AIO).
23.12.2006
Person involved in Iran's
ballistic missile programme.
9. Haleh BAKHTIAR
Involved in the production of
Date of EU
magnesium at a concentration
designation
of 99,9 %.
24.4.2007
UN: 3.3.2008)
10. Morteza BEHZAD
Involved in making centrifuge
Date of EU
components.
designation
24.4.2007
(UN: 3.3.2008)
11. Ahmad Vahid DASTJERDI
Function
Head
of
the
Date of UN
Aerospace Industries Organi
designation
sation (AIO).
23.12.2006
Person involved in Iran's
ballistic missile programme.
12. Ahmad DERAKHSHANDEH
Function
Chairman
and
Date of UN
Managing Director of Bank
designation
Sepah.
24.3.2007
13. Mohammad ESLAMI
Title: Dr.
Head of Defence Industries
Date of UN
Training and Research Institute.
designation
3.3.2008
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Reasons
Date of listing
14. Reza-Gholi ESMAELI
Function: Head of Trade &
Date of UN
International
Affairs
Dept,
designation
Aerospace Industries Organi
23.12.2006
sation (AIO).
Person involved in Iran's
ballistic missile programme.
15. Mohsen
FAKHRIZADEH-
Senior MODAFL scientist and
Date of UN
MAHABADI
former head of the Physics
designation
Research Centre (PHRC).
24.3.2007
16. Mohammad HEJAZI
Title
Brigadier
General.
Date of UN
Function: Commander of Bassij
designation
resistance force.
24.3.2007
17. Mohsen HOJATI
Function: Head of Fajr Industrial
Date of UN
Group.
designation
24.3.2007
18. Seyyed Hussein HOSSEINI
AEOI official involved in the
Date of EU
heavy water research reactor
designation
project at Arak.
24.4.2007
(UN: 3.3.2008)
19. M. Javad KARIMI SABET
Head
of
Novin
Energy
Date of EU
Company, which is designated
designation
under resolution 1747 (2007).
24.4.2007
(UN: 3.3.2008)
20. Mehrdada Akhlaghi
Function: Head of Shahid
Date of UN
KETABACHI
Bagheri Industrial Group (SBIG).
designation
24.3.2007
21. Ali Hajinia LEILABADI
Function: Director General of
Date of UN
Mesbah Energy Company.
designation
Person involved in Iran's
23.12.2006
nuclear programme.
22. Naser MALEKI
Function: Head of Shahid
Date of UN
Hemmat
Industrial
Group
designation
(SHIG).
24.3.2007
Naser Maleki is also a MODAFL
official overseeing work on the
Shahab-3
ballistic
missile
programme. The Shahab-3 is
Iran's
long-range
ballistic
missile currently in service.
23. Hamid-Reza MOHAJERANI
Involved
in
production
Date of EU
management at the Uranium
designation
Conversion Facility (UCF) at
24.4.2007
Esfahan.
(UN: 3.3.2008)
24. Jafar MOHAMMADI
Function: Technical Adviser to
Date of UN
the Atomic Energy Organisation
designation
of Iran (AEOI) (in charge of
23.12.2006
managing the production of
valves for centrifuges).
Person involved in Iran's
nuclear programme.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
25. Ehsan MONAJEMI
Function: Construction Project
Date of UN
Manager,
Natanz.
Person
designation
involved in Iran's nuclear
23.12.2006
programme.
26. Mohammad Reza NAQDI
Title: Brigadier General.
Former Deputy Chief of Armed
Date of UN
Forces General Staff for
designation
Logistics
and
Industrial
3.3.2008
Research/Head of State Anti-
Smuggling
Headquarters,
engaged in efforts to get round
the sanctions imposed by
resolutions 1737 (2006) and
1747 (2007).
27. Houshang NOBARI
Involved in the management of
Date of EU
the
Natanz
enrichment
designation
complex.
24.4.2007
(UN: 3.3.2008)
28. Mohammad
Mehdi
Nejad
Title: Lt Gen.
Function: Rector of Malek
Date of UN
NOURI
Ashtar University of Defence
designation
Technology. The chemistry
23.12.2006
department of Ashtar University
of Defence Technology is
affiliated to MODALF and has
conducted experiments on
beryllium. Person involved in
Iran's nuclear programme.
29. Mohammad QANNADI
Function: AEOI Vice President
Date of UN
for
Research
&
Devel
designation
opment.Person involved in
23.12.2006
Iran's nuclear programme.
30. Amir RAHIMI
Function: Head of Esfahan
Date of UN
Nuclear Fuel Research and
designation
Production Center. Esfahan
24.3.2007
Nuclear Fuel Research and
Production Center is part of
the AEOI's Nuclear Fuel
Production and Procurement
Company, which is involved in
enrichment-related activities.
31. Javad RAHIQI
Date of birth
Function: Head of the Atomic
Date of EU
24.4.1954.
Energy Organization of Iran
designation
Place of birth
(AEOI) Esfahan Nuclear Tech
24.4.2007
Marshad.
nology Center
(UN: 9.6.2010)
32. Abbas RASHIDI
Involved in enrichment work at
Date of EU
Natanz.
designation
24.4.2007
(UN: 3.3.2008)
33. Morteza REZAIE
Title: Brigadier General.
Date of UN
Function
Deputy
designation
Commander of IRGC.
24.3.2007
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
34. Morteza SAFARI
Title: Rear Admiral.
Function: Commander of IRGC
Date of UN
Navy.
designation
24.3.2007
35. Yahya Rahim SAFAVI
Title: Maj Gen.
Function: Commander, IRGC
Date of UN
(Pasdaran). Person involved in
designation
both Iran's nuclear and ballistic
23.12.2006
missile programmes.
36. Seyed Jaber SAFDARI
Manager
of
the
Natanz
Date of UN
Enrichment Facilities.
designation
24.3.2007
37. Hosein SALIMI
Title: General.
Function: Commander of the
Date of UN
Air Force, IRGC (Pasdaran).
designation
Person involved in Iran's
23.12.2006
ballistic missile programme.
38. Qasem SOLEIMANI
Title: Brigadier General.
Function: Commander of Qods
Date of UN
force.
designation
24.3.2007
39. Ghasem SOLEYMANI
Director of Uranium Mining
Date of UN
Operations at the Saghand
designation
Uranium Mine.
3.3.2008
40. Mohammad Reza ZAHEDI
Title: Brigadier General.
Function: Commander of IRGC
Date of UN
Ground Forces.
designation
24.3.2007
41. General ZOLQADR
Function
Deputy
Interior
Date of UN
Minister for Security Affairs,
designation
IRGC officer.
24.3.2007
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ANNEX VIII
List of persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 16(2)
A. Natural persons
Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
1. Reza AGHAZADEH
DoB
15/3/1949
Passport
Former Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of
23.4.2007
number
S4409483
valid
Iran (AEOI). The AEOI oversees Iran's nuclear
26/4/2000 – 27/4/2010: Issued
programme and is designated under UNSCR 1737
Tehran,
Diplomatic
passport
(2006).
number: D9001950, issued on
22/1/2008
valid
until
21/1/2013, Place of birth: Khoy
2. Javad DARVISH-VAND
IRGC Brigadier-General. MODAFL Deputy for
23.6.2008
Inspection. Responsible for all MODAFL facilities
and installations
3. Ali DIVANDARI
Head of Bank Mellat (see Part B, no 4)
26.7.2010
(a.k.a DAVANDARI)
4. Rear Admiral Ali FADAVI
Commander of IRGC Navy
26.7.2010
5. Dr Hoseyn (Hossein) FAQIHIAN
Address of NFPC: AEOI-NFPD,
Deputy and Director-General of the Nuclear Fuel
23.4.2007
P.O.Box: 11365-8486, Tehran/Iran
Production and Procurement Company (NFPC) (see
Part B, no 30), part of the AEOI. The AEOI oversees
Iran's nuclear programme and is designated under
UNSCR 1737 (2006). The NFPC is involved in
enrichment-related activities that Iran is required by
the IAEA Board and Security Council to suspend.
6. Seyyed Mahdi FARAHI
IRGC Brigadier-General. Managing Director of the
23.6.2008
Defence Industries Organisation (DIO) which is
designated under UNSCR 1737 (2006)
7. Parviz FATAH
born 1961
Khatam al Anbiya's number two
26.7.2010
8. Engineer Mojtaba HAERI
MODAFL Deputy for Industry. Supervisory role over
23.6.2008
AIO and DIO
9. Ali HOSEYNITASH
IRGC Brigadier-General. Head of the General
23.6.2008
Department of the Supreme National Security
Council and involved in formulating policy on the
nuclear issue
10. Mohammad Ali JAFARI
Commander of the IRGC
23.6.2008
11. Mahmood JANNATIAN
DoB 21/4/1946, passport number
Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of
23.6.2008
T12838903
Iran
12. Said Esmail KHALILIPOUR
DoB: 24/11/1945, PoB: Langroud
Deputy Head of AEOI. The AEOI oversees Iran's
23.4.2007
(a.k.a.: LANGROUDI)
nuclear programme and is designated under
UNSCR 1737 (2006).
13. Ali Reza KHANCHI
Address of NRC: AEOI-NRC
Head of AEOI's Tehran Nuclear Research Centre. The
23.4.2007
P.O.Box: 11365-8486 Tehran/Iran;
IAEA is continuing to seek clarification from Iran
Fax: (+9821) 8021412
about plutonium separation experiments carried
out at the TNRC, including about the presence of
HEU particles in environmental samples taken at the
Karaj Waste Storage Facility where containers used
to store depleted uranium targets used in those
experiments are located. The AEOI oversees Iran's
nuclear programme and is designated under
UNSCR 1737 (2006).
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
14. Fereydoun MAHMOUDIAN
Born on 7/11/1943 in Iran.
Director of Fulmen (see Part B, No 13)
26.7.2010
Passport no 05HK31387 issued
on 1/1/2002 in Iran, valid until
7/8/2010.
Acquired French nationality on
7/5/2008
15. Ebrahim MAHMUDZADEH
Managing Director of Iran Electronic Industries (see
23.6.2008
Part B, no 20)
16. Brigadier-General
MODAFL Deputy for Supplies and Logistics (see Part
23.6.2008
Beik MOHAMMADLU
B, no 29)
17. Mohammad MOKHBER
4th Floor, No 39 Ghandi street
President of the Setad Ejraie foundation, an
26.7.2010
Tehran
investment fund linked to Ali Khameneï, the
Iran 1517883115
Supreme Leader. Member of the Management
Board of Sina Bank.
18. Mohammad Reza MOVASAGHNIA
Head of Samen Al A’Emmeh Industries Group
26.7.2010
(SAIG), also known as the Cruise Missile Industry
Group. This organisation was designated under
UNSCR 1747 and listed in Annex I to Common
Position 2007/140/CFSP.
19. Anis NACCACHE
Administrator of Barzagani Tejarat Tavanmad Saccal
23.6.2008
companies; his company has attempted to procure
sensitive goods for entities designated under
Resolution 1737 (2006).
20. Brigadier-General
Mohammad
Head of Aerospace Industries Organisation (AIO)
23.6.2008
NADERI
(see Part B, no 1). AIO has taken part in sensitive
Iranian programmes.
21. Mostafa Mohammad NAJJAR
IRGC Brigadier-General. Minister for the Interior and
23.6.2008
former Minister of MODAFL, responsible for all
military programmes, including ballistic missiles
programmes.
22. Mohammad Reza NAQDI
Born in 1953, Nadjaf (Iraq)
Brigadier General, Commander of Basij Resistance
26.7.2010
Force
23. Mohammad PAKPUR
Brigadier General, Commander of IRGC Ground
26.7.2010
Forces
24. Rostam QASEMI (a.k.a. Rostam
Born in 1961
Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya
26.7.2010
GHASEMI)
25. Hossein SALAMI
Brigadier General, Deputy Commander of the IRGC
26.7.2010
26. Ali Akbar SALEHI
Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran
17.11.2009
(AEOI). The AEOI oversees Iran's nuclear
programme and is designated under UNSCR 1737
(2006).
27. Rear Admiral Mohammad SHAFI'I
Former MODAFL Deputy for Coordination (see Part
23.6.2008
RUDSARI
B, no 29).
28. Ali SHAMSHIRI
IRGC Brigadier-General. MODAFL Deputy for
23.6.2008
Counter-Intelligence, responsible for security of
MODAFL personnel and Installations
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
29. Abdollah SOLAT SANA
Managing Director of the Uranium Conversion
23.4.2007
Facility (UCF) in Esfahan. This is the facility that
produces the feed material (UF6) for the enrichment
facilities at Natanz. On 27 August 2006, Solat Sana
received a special award from President Ahma
dinejad for his role.
30. Ahmad VAHIDI
IRGC Brigadier-General, Minister of the MODAFL
23.6.2008
and former Deputy Head of MODAFL
B. Legal persons, entities and bodies
Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
1. Aerospace Industries Organisation,
AIO, 28 Shian 5, Lavizan, Tehran,
AIO oversees Iran's production of missiles, including
23.4.2007
AIO
Iran
Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, Shahid Bagheri
Langare Street,
Industrial Group and Fajr Industrial Group, which
Nobonyad Square, Tehran, Iran
were all designated under UNSCR 1737 (2006).
The head of AIO and two other senior officials
were also designated under UNSCR 1737 (2006)
2. Armed
Forces
Geographical
Assessed to provide geospatial data for the Ballistic
23.6.2008
Organisation
Missile programme
3. Azarab Industries
Ferdowsi Ave, PO Box 11365-171,
Energy sector firm that provides manufacturing
26.7.2010
Tehran, Iran
support to the nuclear programme, including
designated proliferation sensitive activities. Involved
in the construction of the Arak heavy-water reactor.
4. Bank
Mellat
(including
all
Head
Office
Building,
Bank Mellat engages in a pattern of conduct which
26.7.2010
branches) and subsidiaries
Takeghani (Taleghani) Avenue,
supports and facilitates Iran’s nuclear and ballistic
Tehran 15817, Iran;
missile programmes. It has provided banking
P.O. Box 11365-5964, Tehran
services to UN and EU listed entities or to entities
15817, Iran
acting on their behalf or at their direction, or to
entities owned or controlled by them. It is the
parent bank of First East Export Bank which is
designated under UNSCR 1929.
(a) Mellat Bank SB CJSC
P.O. Box 24, Yerevan
0010,
100 % owned by Bank Mellat
26.7.2010
Republic of Armenia
(b) Persia International Bank Plc
Number 6 Lothbury, Post Code
60 % owned by Bank Mellat
26.7.2010
EC2R 7HH, United Kingdom
5. Bank Melli,
Ferdowsi Avenue,
Providing or attempting to provide financial support
23.6.2008
Bank Melli Iran (including all
PO Box 11365-171, Tehran, Iran
for companies which are involved in or procure
branches) and subsidiaries
goods for Iran's nuclear and missile programmes
(AIO, SHIG, SBIG, AEOI, Novin Energy Company,
Mesbah Energy Company, Kalaye Electric Company
and DIO). Bank Melli serves as a facilitator for Iran's
sensitive activities. It has facilitated numerous
purchases of sensitive materials for Iran's nuclear
and missile programmes. It has provided a range
of financial services on behalf of entities linked to
Iran's nuclear and missile industries, including
opening letters of credit and maintaining accounts.
Many of the above companies have been designated
by UNSCRs 1737 (2006) and 1747 (2007).
Bank Melli continues in this role, by engaging in a
pattern of conduct which supports and facilitates
Iran's sensitive activities. Using its banking rela
tionships, it continues to provide support for, and
financial services to, UN and EU listed entities in
relation to such activities. It also acts on behalf of,
and at the direction of such entities, including Bank
Sepah, often operating through their subsidiaries and
associates.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
(a) Arian Bank (a.k.a. Aryan Bank)
House 2, Street Number 13, Wazir
Arian Bank is a joint-venture between Bank Melli
26.7.2010
Akbar Khan, Kabul, Afghanistan
and Bank Saderat.
(b) Assa Corporation
ASSA CORP, 650 (or 500) Fifth
Assa Corporation is a front company created and
26.7.2010
Avenue, New York, USA;
controlled by Bank Melli. It was set up by Bank
Tax ID No. 1368932 (United
Melli to channel money from the United States to
States)
Iran.
(c) Assa Corporation Ltd
6 Britannia Place, Bath Street, St
Assa Corporation Ltd is the parent organization of
26.7.2010
Helier JE2 4SU, Jersey Channel
Assa Corporation. Owned or controlled by Bank
Islands
Melli
(d) Bank Kargoshaie ( a.k.a. Bank
Mohammadiye
Square,
Bank Kargoshaee is owned by Bank Melli.
26.7.2010
Kargoshaee, a.k.a Kargosai
Mowlavi St., Tehran 11986, Iran
Bank, a.k.a Kargosa'i Bank)
(e) Bank Melli Iran Investment
No 1 - Didare Shomali Haghani
Affiliated with entities sanctioned by the United
26.7.2010
Company (BMIIC)
Highway 1518853115 Tehran
States, the European Union or the United Nations
Iran;
since 2000. Designated by the United States for
Alt. Location: No.2, Nader Alley,
being owned or controlled by Bank Melli.
Vali-Asr Str., Tehran, Iran, P.O.
Box 3898-15875;
Alt. Location: Bldg 2, Nader Alley
after Beheshi Forked Road, P.O.
Box 15875-3898, Tehran, Iran
15116;
Alt., Location: Rafiee Alley, Nader
Alley, 2 After Serahi Shahid
Beheshti, Vali E Asr Avenue,
Tehran, Iran; Business Registration
Number: 89584.
(f) Bank Melli Iran
Number 9/1, Ulitsa Mashkova,
23.6.2008
Moscow, 130064, Russia
Alternative addr
Mashkova st. 9/1 Moscow 105062
Russia
(g) Bank Melli Printing and
18th Km Karaj Special Road,
Designated by the United States for being owned or
26.7.2010
Publishing Company (BMPPC)
1398185611 Tehran, Iran, P.O.
controlled by Bank Melli
Box 37515-183;
Alt. Location: Km 16 Karaj Special
Road, Tehran, Iran;
Business Registration Number
382231
Wholly owned by Bank Melli Investment Co.
26.7.2010
(h) Cement Investment and Devel
No 20, West Nahid Blvd. Vali Asr
opment Company (CIDCO)
Ave. Tehran, Iran, 1967757451
Holding Company to manage all cement
(a.k.a.
Cement
Industry
No. 241, Mirdamad Street, Tehran,
companies owned by BMIIC
Iran
Investment and Development
Company, CIDCO, CIDCO
Cement Holding)
(i) First Persian Equity Fund
Walker House, 87 Mary Street,
Cayman-based fund licensed by the Iranian
26.7.2010
George Town, Grand Cayman,
Government for foreign investment in the Tehran
KY1-9002, Cayman Islands;
Stock Exchange
Alt. Location: Clifton House, 7z5
Fort Street, P.O. Box 190, Grand
Cayman,
KY1-1104;
Cayman
Islands;
Alt. Location: Rafi Alley, Vali Asr
Avenue, Nader Alley, Tehran,
15116, Iran, P.O.Box 15875-3898
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
(j) Mazandaran Cement Company
No 51, sattari st. Afric Ave. Tehran
Controlled by Bank Melli Iran
26.7.2010
Iran
Alt. Loc.: Africa Street, Sattari
Street No. 40, P.O. Box 121,
Tehran, Iran 19688;
Alt Location: 40 Satari Ave.
Afrigha Highway, P.O. Box
19688, Tehran, Iran
(k) Mehr Cayman Ltd.
Cayman
Islands;
Commercial
Owned or controlled by Bank Melli
26.7.2010
Registry
Number
188926
(Cayman Islands)
(l) Melli Agrochemical Company
5th Floor No 23 15th Street,
Owned or controlled by Bank Melli
26.7.2010
PJS
(a.k.a
Melli
Shimi
Gandi Ave. Vanak Sq., Tehran, Iran
Keshavarz)
Alt. Loc.: Mola Sadra Street, 215
Khordad, Sadr Alley No. 13,
Vanak Sq., P.O. Box 15875-1734,
Tehran, Iran
(m) Melli Bank plc
London Wall, 11th floor, London
23.6.2008
EC2Y 5EA, United Kingdom
(n) Melli Investment Holding Inter
514 Business Avenue Building,
Owned or controlled by Bank Melli
26.7.2010
national
Deira, P.O. Box 181878, Dubai,
United Arab Emirates;
Registration Certificate Number
(Dubai) 0107 issued 30. Nov
2005. (o) Shemal Cement Company
No 269 Dr Beheshti Ave. P.O. Box
Controlled by Bank Melli Iran
26.7.2010
(a.k.a: Siman Shomal, a.k.a
15875/4571 Tehran - 15146 Iran
Shomal Cement Company )
Alt. Loc.: Dr Beheshti Ave No. 289,
Tehran, Iran 151446;
Alt. Location: 289 Shahid Baheshti
Ave., P.O. Box 15146, Tehran, Iran
6. Bank Refah
40, North Shiraz Street, Mollasadra
Bank Refah has taken over ongoing operations from
26.7.2010
Ave., Vanak Sq., Tehran, 19917
Bank Melli in the wake of the sanctions imposed on
Iran
the latter by the European Union.
7. Bank Saderat Iran (including all
Bank Saderat Tower, 43 Somayeh
Bank Saderat is an Iranian bank partlyowned by the
26.7.2010
branches) and subsidiaries
Ave, Tehran, Iran.
Iranian government. Bank Saderat has provided
financial services for entities procuring on behalf
of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes,
including entities designated under UNSCR 1737.
Bank Saderat handled DIO (sanctioned in UNSCR
1737) and Iran Electronics Industries payments
and letters of credit as recently as March 2009. In
2003 Bank Saderat handled letter of credit on behalf
of Iranian nuclear-related Mesbah Energy Company
(subsequently sanctioned in UNSR 1737).
(a) Bank Saderat PLC (London)
5 Lothbury,
London,
EC2R
100 % owned subsidiary of Bank Saderat
7 HD, UK
8. Sina Bank
187, Avenue Motahari, Teheran,
This bank is very closely linked to the interests of
26.7.2010
Iran
‘Daftar’ (Office of the Supreme Leader, with an
administration of some 500 collaborators). It
contributes in this way to funding the regime's
strategic interests.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
9. ESNICO (Equipment Supplier for
No 1, 37th Avenue, Asadabadi
Procures industrial goods, specifically for the nuclear
26.7.2010
Nuclear Industries Corporation)
Street, Tehran, Iran
programme activities carried out by AEOI, Novin
Energy and Kalaye Electric Company (all designated
under UNSCR 1737). ESNICO’s Director is Haleh
Bakhtiar (designated in UNSCR 1803).
10. Etemad Amin Invest Co Mobin
Pasadaran Av. Tehran, Iran
Close to Naftar and to Bonyad-e Mostazafan, Etemad
26.7.2010
Amin Invest Co Mobin contributes to funding the
strategic interests of the regime and of the parallel
Iranian state.
11. Export Development Bank of Iran
Export Development Building,
The Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) has
26.7.2010
(EDBI) (including all branches) and
21th floor, Tose'e tower, 15th st,
been involved in the provision of financial services
subsidiaries
Ahmad Qasir Ave, Tehran - Iran,
to companies connected to Iran’s programmes of
15138-35711
proliferation concern and has helped UN-designated
next to the 15th Alley, Bokharest
entities to circumvent and breach sanctions. It
Street, Argentina Square, Tehran,
provides financial services to MODAFL-subordinate
Iran;
entities and to their front companies which support
Tose'e Tower, corner of 15th St,
Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. It
Ahmad Qasir Ave., Argentine
has continued to handle payments for Bank Sepah,
Square, Tehran, Iran;
post-designation by the UN, including payments
No. 129, 21 's Khaled Eslamboli,
related to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile
No. 1 Building, Tehran, Iran;
programmes. EDBI has handled transactions linked
C.R. No. 86936
to Iran’s defence and missile entities, many of which
(Iran)
have been sanctioned by UNSC. EDBI served as a
leading intermediary handling Bank Sepah’s (sanc
tioned by UNSC since 2007) financing, including
WMD-related payments. EDBI provides financial
services to various MODAFL entities and has
facilitated ongoing procurement activities of front
companies associated with MODAFL entities.
(a) EDBI Exchange Company (a.k.a.
No 20, 13th St., Vozara Ave.,
Tehran-based EDBI Exchange Company is 70 %-
26.7.2010
Export Development Exchange
Tehran, Iran 1513753411, P.O.
owned by Export Development Bank of Iran
Broker Co.)
Box: 15875-6353
(EDBI). It was designated by the United States in
Alt. Loc.: Tose'e Tower, corner of
October 2008 for being owned or controlled by
15th St., Ahmad Qasir Ave.;
EDBI.
Argentine Square, Tehran, Iran
(b) EDBI
Stock
Brokerage
Tose'e Tower, corner of 15th St.,
Tehran-based EDBI Stock Brokerage Company is a
26.7.2010
Company
Ahmad Qasir Ave.; Argentine
wholly owned subsidiary of Export Development
Square, Tehran, Iran
Bank of Iran (EDBI). It was designated by the
United States in October 2008 for being owned or
controlled by EDBI.
(c) Banco
Internacional
De
Urb. El Rosal, Avenida Francesco
Banco Internacional De Desarrollo CA is owned by
26.7.2010
Desarrollo CA
de Miranda, Edificio Dozsa, Piso
the Export Development Bank of Iran.
8, Caracas C.P. 1060, Venezuela
12. Fajr Aviation Composite Industries
Mehrabad Airport, PO
Box
A subsidiary of the IAIO within MODAFL (see no
26.7.2010
13445-885, Tehran, Iran
29), which primarily produces composite materials
for the aircraft industry, but also linked to the devel
opment of carbon fibre capabilities for nuclear and
missile applications. Linked to the Technology
Cooperation Office. Iran has recently announced its
intention to mass produce new generation
centrifuges which will require FACI carbon fibre
production capabilities.
13. Fulmen
167 Darya boulevard - Shahrak
Fulmen was involved in the installation of electrical
26.7.2010
Ghods, 14669 - 8356 Tehran.
equipment on the Qom/Fordoo site before its
existence had been revealed.
(a) Arya Niroo Nik
Arya Niroo Nik is a front company used by Fulmen
26.7.2010
for some of its operations.
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Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
14. Future Bank BSC
Block 304. City Centre Building.
Two-thirds of Bahrain-based Future Bank are owned
26.7.2010
Building
199,
Government
by Iranian banks. EU-designated Bank Melli and
Avenue, Road 383, Manama,
Bank Saderat each own one-third of the shares, the
Bahrain. PO Box 785; Business
remaining third being held by Ahli United Bank
Registration
2k
Document
(AUB) of Bahrain. Although AUB still owns its
54514-1 (Bahrain) expires 9 Jun
shares of Future Bank, according to its 2007
2009; Trade License No 13388
annual report, AUB no longer exercises significant
(Bahrain)
influence over the bank which is effectively
controlled by its Iranian parents both of which are
singled out in UNSCR 1803 as Iranian banks
requiring particular ‘vigilance’. The tight links
between Future Bank and Iran are further
evidenced by the fact that the Chairman of Bank
Melli has also held concurrently the position of
Chairman of Future Bank.
15. Industrial Development & Reno
Government body responsible for acceleration of
26.7.2010
vation Organization (IDRO)
Iran’s industrialisation. Controls various companies
involved in work for the nuclear and missile
programmes and involved in the foreign
procurement advanced manufacturing technology
in order to support them.
16. Iran Aircraft Industries (IACI)
A subsidiary of the IAIO within MODAFL (see no
26.7.2010
29). Manufactures, repairs, and conducts overhauls
of airplanes and aircraft engines and procures
aviation-related parts often of US-origin typically
via foreign intermediaries. IACI and its subsidiaries
have also been detected using a worldwide network
of brokers seeking to procure aviation-related goods.
17. Iran
Aircraft
Manufacturing
P.O. Box 83145-311, 28 km
Owned or controlled by, or acts on behalf of;
26.7.2010
Company (a.k.a: HESA, HESA
Esfahan – Tehran Freeway, Shahin
MODAFL (see no 29).
Trade Center, HTC, IAMCO, IAMI,
Shahr, Esfahan, Iran;
Iran
Aircraft
Manufacturing
P.O. Box 14155-5568, No. 27
Company, Iran Aircraft Manufac
Ahahamat Ave., Vallie Asr Square,
turing Industries, Karkhanejate
Tehran 15946, Iran;
Sanaye Havapaymaie Iran, Hava
P.O. Box 81465-935, Esfahan,
Peyma Sazi-e Iran, Havapeyma
Iran;
Sazhran, Havapeyma Sazi Iran,
Shahih Shar Industrial Zone,
Hevapeimasazi)
Isfahan, Iran; P.O. Box 8140, No.
107 Sepahbod Gharany Ave.,
Tehran, Iran
18. Iran
Centrifuge
Technology
TESA has taken over the activities of Farayand
26.7.2010
Company (a.k.a. TSA or TESA)
Technique (designated under UNSCR 1737). It
manufactures uranium enrichment centrifuge parts,
and is directly supporting proliferation sensitive
activity that Iran is required to suspend by
UNSCRs. Carries out work for Kalaye Electric
Company (designated under UNSCR 1737).
19. Iran Communications Industries
PO Box 19295-4731, Pasdaran
Iran Communications Industries, a subsidiary of Iran
26.7.2010
(ICI)
Avenue, Tehran, Iran;
Electronics Industries (see no 20), produces various
Alternative address: PO Box
items including communication systems, avionics,
19575-131, 34 Apadana Avenue,
optics and electro-optics devices, micro-electronics,
Tehran, Iran;
information technology, test and measurement, tele
Alternative address: Shahid Langary
communication security, electronic warfare, radar
Street, Nobonyad Square Ave,
tube manufacture and refurbishment, and missile
Pasdaran, Tehran
launchers. These items can be used in programmes
that are under sanction per UNSCR 1737.
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Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
20. Iran
Electronics
Industries
P. O. Box 18575-365, Tehran, Iran
Wholly-owned subsidiary of MODAFL (and therefore
23.6.2008
(including all branches) and
a sister-organisation to AIO, AvIO and DIO). Its role
subsidiaries
is to manufacture electronic components for Iranian
weapons systems.
(a) Isfahan Optics
P.O. Box 81465-313 Kaveh Ave.
Owned, controlled by, or acts on behalf of Iran
26.7.2010
Isfahan - Iran
Electronics Industries
P.O. Box 81465-117, Isfahan, Iran
21. Iran Insurance Company (a.k.a.
121 Fatemi Ave., P.O. Box 14155-
Iran Insurance Company has insured the purchase of
26.7.2010
Bimeh Iran)
6363 Tehran, Iran
various items that can be used in programmes that
P.O. Box 14155-6363, 107 Fatemi
are sanctioned by UNSCR 1737. Purchased items
Ave., Tehran, Iran
insured include helicopter spare parts, electronics,
and computers with applications in aircraft and
missile navigation.
22. Iranian Aviation Industries Organ
Ave. Sepahbod Gharani P.O. Box
A MODAFL (see no 29) organisation responsible for
26.7.2010
ization (IAIO)
15815/1775 Tehran, Iran
planning and managing Iran’s military aviation
Ave. Sepahbod Gharani P.O. Box
industry.
15815/3446 Tehran, Iran
107 Sepahbod Gharani Avenue,
Tehran, Iran
23. IRGC Air Force
Operates Iran's inventory of short and medium
23.6.2008
range ballistic missiles. The head of the IRGC air
force was designated by UNSCR 1737 (2006)
24. IRGC-Air Force Al-Ghadir Missile
The IRGC-Air Force Al-Ghadir Missile Command is a
26.7.2010
Command
specific element within the IRGC Air Force that has
been working with SBIG (designated under UNSCR
1737) with the FATEH 110, short range ballistic
missile as well as the Ashura medium range
ballistic missile. This command appears to be the
entity that actually has the operational control of
the missiles.
25. IRGC Qods Force
Tehran, Iran
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
26.7.2010
Qods Force is responsible for operations outside
Iran and is Tehran's principal foreign policy tool
for special operations and support to terrorists and
Islamic militants abroad. Hizballah used Qods Force-
supplied rockets, anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs),
man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), and
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the 2006
conflict with Israel and benefited from Qods Force
training on these systems, according to press
reporting. According to a variety of reports, the
Qods Force continues to re-supply and train
Hizballah on advanced weaponry, anti-aircraft
missiles, and long-range rockets. The Qods Force
continues to provide limited lethal support,
training, and funding to Taliban fighters in
southern and western Afghanistan including small
arms, ammunition, mortars, and short-range
battlefield rockets. Commander has been sanctioned
under UNSCR
26. Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping
No. 37, Aseman Tower, Sayyade
IRISL has been involved in the shipment of military-
26.7.2010
Lines
(IRISL)
(including
all
Shirazee Square, Pasdaran Ave.,
related cargo, including proscribed cargo from Iran.
branches) and subsidiaries
PO Box 19395-1311. Tehran. Iran;
Three such incidents involved clear violations that
No. 37,. Corner of 7th Narenjestan,
were reported to the UN Security Council Iran
Sayad Shirazi Square, After
Sanctions Committee. IRISL's connection to prolif
Noboyand Square, Pasdaran Ave.,
eration was such that the UNSC called on states to
Tehran, Iran
conduct inspections of IRISL vessels, provided there
are reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel is
transporting proscribed goods, in UNSCRs 1803 and
1929. EN
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Name
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Date of listing
(a) Bushehr Shipping
Company
143/1 Tower Road Sliema, Slm
Owned or controlled by IRISL
26.7.2010
Limited (Tehran)
1604, Malta; c/o Hafiz Darya
Shipping Company, Ehteshamiyeh
Square 60, Neyestani 7, Pasdaran,
Tehran, Iran
(b) Hafize Darya Shipping Lines
No 35 Ehteshamieh SQ. Neyestan
Acts on behalf of IRISL performing container
26.7.2010
(HDSL) (a.k.a HDS Lines)
7, Pasdaran, Tehran, Iran P.O. Box
operations using vessels owned by IRISL.
1944833546
Alt. Loc.: No. 60 Ehteshamiyeh
Square, 7th Neyestan Street,
Pasdaran Avenue,
Tehran, Iran;
Alternative Address: Third Floor of
IRISL’s Aseman Tower
(c) Hanseatic Trade Trust
&
Schottweg 7, 22087 Hamburg,
Controlled and/or acting on behalf of IRISL.
26.7.2010
Shipping (HTTS) GmbH
Germany;
Opp 7th Alley, Zarafshan St,
Eivanak St, Qods Township; HTTS
GmbH,
(d) Irano Misr Shipping Company
No 37 Asseman tower, Shahid
Acts on behalf of IRISL, along the Suez Canal and in
26.7.2010
Lavasani (Farmanieh) Junction,
Alexandria and Port Said. 51 %-owned by IRISL.
Pasdaran Ave. Tehran - Iran P.O.
Box: 19395- 1311
Alt. Loc.: No 41, 3rd Floor, Corner
of 6th Alley, Sunaei Street, Karim
Khan Zand Ave, Tehran;
265, Next to Mehrshad, Sedaghat
St., Opposite of Mellat Park, Vali
Asr Ave., Tehran 1A001, Iran;
18 Mehrshad Street, Sadaghat St.,
Opposite of Mellat Park, Vali Asr
Ave., Tehran 1A001, Iran
(e) Irinvestship Ltd
Global House, 61 Petty France,
Owned by IRISL. Provides financial, legal, and
26.7.2010
London SW1H 9EU, United
insurance services for IRISL as well as marketing,
Kingdom;
chartering, and crew management.
Business Registration Document #
4110179 (United Kingdom)
(f) IRISL (Malta) Ltd
Flat 1, 181 Tower Road, Sliema
Acts on behalf of IRISL in Malta. A joint venture
26.7.2010
SLM 1605, Malta
with German and Maltese shareholding. IRISL has
been using the Malta route since 2004 and uses
Freeport as a trans-shipment hub between the
Persian Gulf and Europe.
(g) IRISL Club
No 60 Ehteshamiyeh Square, 7th
Owned by IRISL.
26.7.2010
Neyestan Street, Pasdaran Avenue,
Tehran
(h) IRISL
Europe
GmbH
Schottweg 5, 22087 Hamburg,
IRISL's agent in Germany.
26.7.2010
(Hamburg)
Germany
V.A.T. Number DE217283818
(Germany)
(i) IRISL Marine Services
and
Sarbandar Gas Station PO Box
Owned by IRISL. Provides fuel, bunkers, water,
26.7.2010
Engineering Company
199, Bandar Imam Khomeini, Iran;
paint, lubricating oil and chemicals required by
Karim Khan Zand Ave, Iran Shahr
IRISL’s vessels. The company also provides main
Shomai, No 221, Tehran, Iran;
tenance supervision of ships as well as facilities
No 221, Northern Iranshahr Street,
and services for the crew members. IRISL
Karim Khan Ave, Tehran, Iran
subsidiaries have used US dollar-denominated bank
accounts registered under cover-names in Europe
and the Middle East to facilitate routine fund
transfers. IRISL has facilitated repeated violations of
provisions of UNSCR 1747.
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Reasons
Date of listing
(j) IRISL Multimodal
Transport
No 25, Shahid Arabi Line, Sanaei
Owned by IRISL. Responsible for the transporting of
26.7.2010
Company
St, Karim Khan Zand Zand St
cargo by rail. It is a wholly controlled subsidiary of
Tehran. Iran
IRISL.
(k) IRITAL Shipping SRL
Commercial Registry Number: GE
Point of contact for ECL and PCL services. Used by
26.7.2010
426505 (Italy); Italian Fiscal Code
the DIO subsidiary Marine Industries Group (MIG;
03329300101
(Italy);
V.A.T.
now known as Marine Industries Organization, MIO)
Number: 12869140157 (Italy)
which is responsible for the design and construction
Ponte Francesco Morosini 59,
of various marine structures and both military and
16126 Genova (GE), Italy;
non- military vessels. DIO was designated under
UNSCR 1737.
(l) ISI Maritime Limited (Malta)
147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valetta, Vlt
Owned or controlled by IRISL
26.7.2010
1185, Malta; c/o IranoHind
Shipping Co. Ltd., Mehrshad
Street, PO Box 15875, Tehran, Iran
(m) Khazer Shipping Lines (Bandar
No. 1; End of Shahid Mostafa
100 % owned subsidiary of IRISL. Total fleet of six
26.7.2010
Anzali)
Khomeini St., Tohid Square, O.O.
vessels. Operates in the Caspian Sea. Has facilitated
Box 43145, Bandar Anzali 1711-
shipments involving UN- and US-designated entities,
324, Iran; M. Khomeini St.,
such as Bank Mellli, by shipping cargo of prolif
Ghazian, Bandar Anzali, Gilan, Iran
eration concern from countries like Russia and
Kazakhstan to Iran.
(n) Leading Maritime Pte Ltd (a.k.a
200 Middle Road #14-01 Prime
Leadmarine, acts on behalf of HDSL in Singapore.
26.7.2010
Leadmarine, a.k.a. Asia Marine
Centre Singapore 188980 (alt.
Previously known as Asia Marine Network Pte Ltd
Network Pte Ltd a.k.a. IRISL
199090)
and IRISL Asia Pte Ltd, and acted on behalf of IRISL
Asia Pte Ltd; a.k.a. Lead
in Singapore.
maritime)
(o) Marble
Shipping
Limited
143/1 Tower Road, Sliema, Slm
Owned or controlled by IRISL.
26.7.2010
(Malta)
1604, Malta
(p) Oasis Freight Agency
Al Meena Street, Opposite Dubai
Acts on behalf of IRISL in the UAE providing fuel
26.7.2010
Ports & Customs, 2nd Floor,
and stores, equipment, spare parts, and ship repairs.
Sharaf Building, Dubai UAE;
Also acts on behalf of HDSL.
Sharaf Building, 1st Floor, Al
Mankhool St., Bur Dubai, P.O.
Box 5562, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates;
Sharaf Building, No. 4, 2nd Floor,
Al
Meena
Road,
Opposite
Customs, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates,
Kayed Ahli Building, Jamal Abdul
Nasser Road (Parallel to Al
Wahda St.), P.O. Box 4840,
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
(q) Safiran Payam Darya (a.k.a.
No 1 Eighth Narengestan, Artesh
Acts on behalf of IRISL performing bulk services
26.7.2010
Safiran Payam Darya Shipping
Street, Farmanieh, PO Box 19635-
Lines, a.k.a SAPID Shipping
1116, Tehran, Iran;
Company)
Alternative address: 33 Eighth
Narenjestan, Artesh Street, PO
Box 19635-1116, Tehran, Iran;
Alternative Address: Third Floor of
IRISL’s Aseman Tower
(r) Santexlines (a.k.a. IRISL China
Suite 1501, Shanghai Zhongrong
Santexlines act on behalf of HDSL. Previously
26.7.2010
Shipping Company Ltd, a.k.a.
Plaza, 1088, Pudong(S) road,
known as IRISL China shipping Company, it acted
Yi Hang Shipping Company)
Shanghai 200122, Shanghai, China
on behalf of IRISL in China.
Alternative
Address
F23A-D,
Times Plaza No. 1, Taizi Road,
Shekou, Shenzhen 518067, China
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Date of listing
(s) Shipping Computer
Services
No 37 Asseman Shahid Sayyad
Owned or controlled by, or acts on behalf of, IRISL
26.7.2010
Company (SCSCOL)
Shirazee sq., Pasdaran ave., P.O.
Box 1587553 1351, Tehran, Iran;
No 13, 1st Floor, Abgan Alley,
Aban ave., Karimkhan Zand Blvd,
Tehran 15976, Iran.
(t) SISCO Shipping Company Ltd
Has offices in Seoul and Busan,
Acts on behalf of IRISL in South Korea
26.7.2010
(a.k.a IRISL Korea Ltd)
South Korea.
(u) Soroush Saramin Asatir (SSA)
No 5, Shabnam Alley, Golriz St.,
Acts on behalf of IRISL. A Tehran-based ship
26.7.2010
Shahid Motahhari Ave., Tehran-
management company acts as technical manager
Iran, P.O. Box 19635- 114
for many of SAPID’s vessels
No 14 (alt. 5) Shabnam Alley, Fajr
Street, Shahid Motahhari Avenue,
PO Box 196365-1114, Tehran
Iran
(v) South Way Shipping Agency
No. 101, Shabnam Alley, Ghaem
Controlled by IRISL and acts for IRISL in Iranian
26.7.2010
Co Ltd
Magham Street, Tehran, Iran
ports overseeing such tasks as loading and
unloading.
(w) Valfajr 8th Shipping Line Co.
No 119, Corner Shabnam Ally,
A 100 % owned subsidiary of IRISL. It conducts
26.7.2010
(a.k.a. Valfajr)
Shoaa
Square
Ghaem-Magam
transfers between Iran and the Gulf States such as
Farahani, Tehran - Iran P.O. Box
Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
15875/4155
Valfajr is a Dubai-based subsidiary of Islamic
Alt. Loc.: Abyar Alley, Corner of
Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) that
Shahid Azodi St. & Karim Khan
provides ferry and feeder services, and sometimes
Zand Ave. Tehran, Iran;
couriers freight and passengers across the Persian
Shahid Azodi St. Karim Khan Zand
Gulf. Valfajr in Dubai booked ship crews, booked
Zand
Ave.,
Abiar
Alley.
supply vessel services, prepared ships for arrival
PO Box 4155, Tehran, Iran
and departure and for loading and unloading in
port. Valfajr has port calls in the Persian Gulf and
India. As of mid-June 2009, Valfajr shared the same
building with IRISL in Port Rashid in Dubai, United
Arab Emirates (UAE), and also shared the same
building with IRISL in Tehran, Iran.
27. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Tehran, Iran
Responsible for Iran’s nuclear programme. Has oper
26.7.2010
(IRGC)
ational control for Iran’s ballistic missile programme.
Has undertaken procurement attempts to support
Iran's ballistic missiles and nuclear programmes
28. Javedan Mehr Toos
Engineering firm that procures for the Atomic
26.7.2010
Energy Organisation of Iran which was designated
under UNSCR 1737.
29. Kala Naft
Kala Naft Tehran Co, P.O. Box
Trades equipment for oil and gas sector that can be
26.7.2010
15815/1775, Gharani Avenue,
used for Iran’s nuclear programme. Attempted to
Tehran, Iran;
procure material (very hard-wearing alloy gates)
No 242 Shahid Kalantri Street -
which have no use outside the nuclear industry.
Near Karim Khan Bridge -
Has links to companies involved in Iran’s nuclear
Sepahbod
Gharani
Avenue,
programme.
Teheran;
Kish Free Zone, Trade Center, Kish
Island, Iran;
Kala Ltd., NIOC House, 4 Victoria
Street, London Sw1H1
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30. Machine Sazi Arak
4th km Tehran Road, PO Box 148,
Energy sector firm affiliated with IDRO that provides
26.7.2010
Arak, Iran
manufacturing support to the nuclear programme,
including designated proliferation sensitive activities.
Involved in the construction of the Arak heavy-
water reactor. UK distributed an export denial
notice in July 2009 against Machine Sazi Arak for
an ‘alumina graphite stopper rod.’ In May 2009
Sweden denied the export to Machine Sazi Arak of
‘'cladding of dish ends for pressure vessels’.
31. Marine Industries
Pasdaran Av., PO Box 19585/ 777,
A subsidiary of the DIO
23.4.2007
Tehran
32. MASNA
(Moierat
Saakht
Subordinate to AEOI and Novin Energy (both
26.7.2010
Niroogahye Atomi Iran) Managing
designated under UNSCR 1737). Involved in the
Company for the Construction of
development of nuclear reactors.
Nuclear Power Plants
33. Mechanic Industries Group
Took part in the production of components for the
23.6.2008
ballistics programme.
34. Ministry of Defence and Armed
West side of Dabestan Street,
Responsible for Iran's defence research, development
23.6.2008
Forces Logistics (MODAFL)
Abbas Abad District, Tehran
and manufacturing programmes, including support
to missile and nuclear programmes.
35. Naserin Vahid
Naserin Vahid produces weapons parts on behalf of
26.7.2010
the IRGC. An IRGC front company.
36. Nuclear Fuel Production and
AEOI-NFPD, P.O.Box: 11365-
Nuclear Fuel Production Division (NFPD) of AEOI
23.4.2007
Procurement Company (NFPC)
8486, Tehran/Iran
runs research and development in the field of
P.O. Box 14144-1339, Endof
nuclear fuel cycle including uranium exploration,
North Karegar Ave., Tehran, Iran
mining, milling, conversion and nuclear waste
management. The NFPC is the successor to the
NFPD, the subsidiary company under the AEOI
that runs research and development in the nuclear
fuel cycle including conversion and enrichment.
37. Parchin Chemical Industries
Worked on propulsion techniques for the Iranian
23.6.2008
ballistics programme.
38. Parto Sanat Co
No. 1281 Valiasr Ave., Next to
Manufacturer of frequency changers and it is capable
26.7.2010
14th St., Tehran, 15178 Iran.
of developing/modifying imported foreign frequency
changers in a way that makes them usable in gas
centrifuge enrichment. It is deemed to be involved in
nuclear proliferation activities.
39. Passive Defense Organization
Responsible for the selection and construction of
26.7.2010
strategic facilities, including – according to Iranian
statements - the uranium enrichment site at Fordow
(Qom) built without being declared to the IAEA
contrary to Iran’s obligations (affirmed in a
resolution by the IAEA Board of Governors).
Brigadier General Gholam-Reza Jalali, former IRGC
is PDO’s chairman.
40. Post Bank
237, Motahari Ave., Tehran, Iran
Post Bank has evolved from being an Iranian
26.7.2010
1587618118
domestic bank to a bank which facilitates Iran’s
international trade. Acts on behalf of Bank Sepah
(designated under UNSCR 1747), carrying out
Bank Sepah’s transactions and hiding Bank Sepah’s
connection with transactions in order to circumvent
sanctions. In 2009 Post Bank facilitated business on
behalf of Bank Sepah between Iran’s defence
industries and overseas beneficiaries. Has facilitated
business with front company for DPRK's Tranchon
Commercial Bank, known for facilitating prolif
eration-related-related business between Iran and
the DPRK.
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41. Raka
A department of Kalaye Electric Company
26.7.2010
(designated under UNSCR 1737). Established in
late 2006, it was responsible for the construction
of the Uranium enrichment plant at Fordow (Qom).
42. Research Institute of Nuclear
Subordinate to the AEOI and continuing the work
26.7.2010
Science & Technology (a.k.a.
of its former Research Division. Its managing
Nuclear Science & Technology
director is AEOI Vice President Mohammad
Research Institute)
Ghannadi (designated in UNSCR 1737).
43. Schiller Novin
Gheytariyeh Avenue - no 153 -
Acting on behalf of Defense Industries Organisation
26.7.2010
3rd Floor - PO BOX 17665/153
(DIO).
6 19389 Teheran
44. Sepanir Oil and Gas Energy Engin
A subsidiary of Khatam al-Anbya Construction
26.7.2010
eering Company (a.k.a. Sepah Nir)
Headquarters which was designated under UNSCR
1929. Sepanir Oil and Gas Engineering Company
is participating in Iran's South Pars offshore Phase
15-16 gas field development project.
45. Shahid Ahmad Kazemi Industrial
SAKIG develops and produces surface-to-air missiles
26.7.2010
Group
systems for Iran's military. It maintains military,
missile, and air defense projects and procures
goods from Russia, Belarus, and North Korea.
46. Shakhese Behbud Sanat
Involved in the production of equipment and parts
26.7.2010
for the nuclear fuel cycle.
47. State
Purchasing
Organisation
The SPO appears to facilitate the import of whole
23.6.2008
(SPO)
weapons. It appears to be a subsidiary of MODAFL
48. Technology Cooperation Office
Tehran, Iran
Responsible for Iran's technological advancement
26.7.2010
(TCO) of the Iranian President's
through relevant foreign procurement and training
Office
links. Supports the nuclear and missile programmes.
49. Yasa Part, (including all branches)
Company dealing with procurement activities related
26.7.2010
and subsidiaries
to the purchase of materials and technologies
necessary to nuclear and ballistic programmes.
(a) Arfa Paint Company
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010
(b) Arfeh Company
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010
(c) Farasepehr
Engineering
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010
Company
(d) Hosseini Nejad Trading Co.
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010
(e) Iran Saffron Company or Iran
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010
saffron Co.
(f) Shetab G.
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010
(g) Shetab Gaman
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010
(h) Shetab Trading
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010
(i) Y.A.S. Co. Ltd
Acting on behalf of Yasa Part.
26.7.2010